Re: sponsor rules
>>>>> "Susan" == Susan G Kleinmann <sgk@kleinmann.com> writes:
Susan> From the package names and Descriptions, I found a package
Susan> today that was something of particular interest to me; in
Susan> fact, I'd been thinking about packaging it myself, but was
Susan> delighted to see that it had already been packaged. Let's
Susan> call this package 'foo'. When I tried to download and
Susan> install 'foo', I quickly discovered that its dependencies
Susan> were not satisfied by other packages in the archive, so of
Susan> course it couldn't be installed (i.e., using Debian
Susan> packaging tools, without using --force).
On a related note, what should you do if you find an interesting
packag in unstable, and:
- that package is not installable due to a bad dependency, (eg. a bad
library dependency).
- there are already 10+ merged bug reports open.
- the bug reports are up to 57 days old.
- all the bug reports are marked as important. (shouldn't they be
grave?)
????
I know 2 packages (unless recently fixed) that meet this criteria
(although the one I am not so interested in has one and only one grave
bug).
I can't help but think if the maintainer can't fix a bug like this in
57 days (I assume that both packages just require rebuilding based on
new versions), then maybe he/she really needs to ask for assistance...
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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