Comment 11 for bug 152213

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:01:31PM -0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Is this issue still reproducible in Jaunty with Xfce 4.6?
>
> Presumably you have a Jaunty system; wouldn't it be better to take the

No, I don't have a jaunty system (Debian testing).

> 60 seconds to follow the instructions for reproduction in the original
> bug report (as modified to allow for the fact that the specific package
> has been removed so presumably it's some other config utility) to find
> out whether this bug is still a problem? Then you could say something

I already checked before asking, and I couldn't find the sliders you
were speaking of. Since I don't often use these dialogs, I chose not to
close the bug report directly (I could have missed them). But thanks
anyway, for trying to explain me what I should do while I'm already doing
it.

> like "The new display preferences utility in Jaunty is <foobar>; I
> checked and it doesn't have this bug." which is much more useful and
> informative and less likely to irritate bug submitters by sounding like
> a pointless health-check message; and then you would be able to actually
> close the bug...

Standard bugs responses (from <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses>
for example) are even worse that my pointless health-check message.

> (You might like to read
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/ubuntu/2009-02-27
> -bug-triage-rants.html)

These posts mostly describe interactions between bug triagers and
developers. I uploaded almost all Xfce 4.6 packages into jaunty. So,
should my developer self bash my bug triager self?

But here is the standard response I should have pasted here when closing
the bug instead of asking for input:
"
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed
in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Jaunty Jackalope.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please
follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages
"

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