Hi Jörg, * Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-24 13:19]: > I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: > Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files > to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. > > What would you, as maintainer of package A, do? Reassign the bug to libB. > What do you think about leaving the bug report as is and close it by > adding a dependency on the next release of libB, that fixes the bug. I don't see any reason for this. If your software just needs libB and libB is missing the proper dependencies you could to this as a workaround, but I would not close the bug then with the new upload since the lib is still missing dependencies. Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. http://people.debian.org/~nion/sponsoring-checklist.html
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