* helix wonders if erich ever gets tired of complaining

Customer: I wish to complain about this developer what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very channel.
Vendor: Oh yes, the, uh, the German Blue…What’s,uh…What’s wrong with it?
Customer: I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. ‘E’s complaining, that’s what’s wrong with it!
Vendor: No, no, ‘e’s uh,…he’s discussing
Customer: Look, matey, I know a slasher when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.
Vendor: No no he’s not complaining, he’s, he’s discussing’! Remarkable dev, the German Blue, idn’it, ay? Beautiful coat!
Customer: The coat don’t enter into it. It’s bitching.
Vendor: Nononono, no, no! ‘E’s discussing
Customer: All right then, if he’s discussin’, I’ll debate with him! (shouting at the computer) ‘Ello, Mister Perly Python! I’ve got a lovely fresh babel fish for you if you show…
(owner hits enter) Vendor: There, he replied!
Customer: No, he didn’t, that was you spoofing an email!
Vendor: I never!!
Customer: Yes, you did!
Vendor: I never, never did anything…
[…]
Customer: ‘E’s not chattin’! ‘E’s vitriolic! This dev is no conversation! He has ceased to design! ‘E’s obsolete and gone to meet ‘is makefile! ‘E’s a nagger! Bereft of constructivity, ‘e breaks in pieces! If you hadn’t set an autoresponder ‘e’d not be replying to mails! ‘Is patches are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the keyring! ‘E’s monologing. ‘E’s bitching, THIS IS AN EX-FLOSSDEV!!

You get the idea. ;-) Apologies to one of the greatest comedians.

No, Erinn, I’m not just complaining all the time. I actually worked quite a lot on OSS these days. But in some projects it feels much like you are the only one working there, probably a bit too much… just don’t take my harsh critique too seriously, I’m actually a nice guy, just sometimes too involved with things. (But no, I’m not retiring or so. But facing exams soon.)

On an unrelated note, I today uploaded the selinux-basics package to unstable, it contains some small niceties in setting up a SELinux system on Debian. But it’s still far from completed, easy or documented.