inamerrata

With the trend of posting daily del.icio.us links, I’ve been thinking of trying out a “daily mailing list posts”. Maybe I’ll get around to it sometime. Anyway, today’s mailing list post is this one about dodgy uploads of lib packages. It seems to be the season for it, since Matt Zimmerman did the same thing with libflac recently. Anyway, as that email mentions, I rejected the packages. That’s done with a tool from the “dak” suite called “lisa”, and everytime I use it, I tend to feel sorry for whichever poor sucker gets the message — heck, it’s not even enough to say “the package was rejected, sorry”, it’s instead shouted with a subject like “libofx_0.7.0-3_powerpc.changes REJECTED”.

So, with apologies to Ben Folds…

Using Lisa

The queue is full again.
It took me by surprise.
They’re so sensitive,
But shit just happens sometimes.

She’s my everything.
She’s my best friend and more.
We don’t do anything,
We didn’t do the day…
Before you go,
You ought to know,
That she didn’t mean to hurt you.
I just wanted you to know.

Black tears are falling down your face,
Your deb was wrong.
Black tears are falling as you realise
What she’s done.
Your deb was there before you,
And now it’s gone.
Black tears are falling, falling.

Remember long ago,
Debugging, building, hacking.
Oh so long ago,
Then you uploaded something.
Life was simple then.
But it’s REJECTed now, and you…
You don’t feel anything.
She was reproving;
You are mesmerised
By tiny lines.
You’re watching as the mail is forming,
Slowly from the MIME.

[Repeat Black tears… verse]
Black tears are falling, falling.

Using Lisa…
Using Lisa…
Using Lisa, and there’s nothing you can do.

Black tears are falling, falling. Ooo, ooo.
[repeat to fade out]