Re: Gnome bug 94684
27.04.2001 pisze Christian Marillat (marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr):
> TB> 3) He can report the problem to the gnome maintainers and mark the bug
> TB> forwarded.
> Apparently you don't understand. Read my lips ((c) G. Bush) I'll *never*
> change the upstream API, I'll *never* ask the upstream author to change
> that.
> TB> I'm perfectly happy for him to just do (3). But what he wants to do
> TB> instead is declare real bugs non-bugs, on the grounds that he "can do
> TB> nothing". If he can't even forward bugs upstream, there is a serious
> TB> problem.
> *You* are a serious problem.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> If you don't want to change your configuration each time you did a apt-get
> upgrade, then install potato.
> testing/unstable is for real men (tm).
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> TB> When he said "I can do nothing" he closed the bug. I replied "yes you
> TB> can do something" and reopened it, and he elected to mark it wontfix.
> TB> Now, wontfix is for specific reasons, and "I don't want to bother
> TB> forwarding the bug upstream" is just not an adequate reason.
> This is my last post about this flamewar.
> Maybe I'll reply to constructive post.
It looks like the Debian GNOME maintainer is the part of KDE devilish
plot to make GNOME look unusable and its Debian maintainer too proud of
itself to develop basic communication skills.
It's not the first time the GNOME maintainer shows its great ability to
talk impolite to other people _without_ valid reason.
regards,
Jubal (just after reading the Sector General novels again)
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