Comment 11 for bug 11177

> The current Debian data base contains many problem reports for problems
> that were solved years ago, or even never existed.

Please let us know which problems were solved years ago and we will
close those reports. I have tried to do this but I have found it very
difficult to close reports on the basis of information provided in your
excessively terse changelogs. You don't have a BTS we can consult or,
so far as I have been able to discover, an open mailing list. Pot, meet
kettle!

> It is not secretarial work. If it were, you should just set up an alias
> so that the bug tracking machinery forwards the reports. That would be
> much better than the current situation.

Please subscribe to bug report mail via packages.qa.debian.org/util-linux
if you want to receive BTS-related mail.

> But earlier Debian maintainers did a lot of good work.

Adrian Bunk was the previous maintainer. He left the project if a huff
just before the release of woody and LaMont Jones was good enough to
take over maintainership of the package. I think that we should not
criticize him personally for the job he is doing because I am not aware
that anyone has ever offered to help or to take the package off his
hands. (If such help were offered and he refused it, that would be
different.)

You are right, though, that the job should be taken on by someone else
since it is clear that L.J. doesn't have time to take care of it.

--
Thomas Hood