Comment 16 for bug 11177

Message-Id: <1103202098.22112.259.camel@thanatos>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:01:39 +0100
From: Thomas Hood <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: util-linux out of the doldrums

> > Please let us know which problems were solved years ago and we will
> > close those reports.
>
> It is not upstreams place to solve our bugs for us.

It is not his job, but if he knows of bug reports that could be
closed then it would be helpful if he let us know which ones.
That's all I meant to say.

(However, it could be that you plan to go through all the reports
and close those that have been addressed and don't need any help
from others to do this. Fine.)

> > Please subscribe to bug report mail via packages.qa.debian.org/util-linux
> > if you want to receive BTS-related mail.
>
> Given that many of the bugs are due to Debian changes, this is probably
> not a truely beneficial thing for him to do. We should be sending bugs
> to him in a more timely manner, after verifying that they are at least
> not ours.

Granted, the maintainer has been delinquent in this respect.

>> 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.)
> I have, in the past, declined at least one offer of assistance, for
> various reasons.

So you are positively insisting that you have done something wrong and
deserve personal criticism? Erm, OK.

(I am slightly bewildered by the turn this conversation has taken.)

> Times change. I'm working on getting the diff back down to a manageable
> size, and the bugs that we have fixed pushed back upstream this month.

Well, that's what matters. I'm very happy to see util-linux pulled out
of the doldrums.

--
Thomas Hood