Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> it's not an excuse template it's:
>
> - an indication the effort of submitting a bug report is apreciated
> - an indication the effort will _not_ be ignored in the long run
> - an indication that actual fixing of the bug will take a while
If these are really desired, it's trivial for me to change the BTS
submit@ ACK message to indicate that this is the case, and/or have it
point to more documentation.
Just for reference, what is currently sent is the following[1]:
Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian.
^- an indication the effort of submitting a bug report is appreciated
This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has
been received. It is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other
interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course.
^- an indication the effort will _not_ be ignored in the long run
Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s):
[...]
Don Armstrong
1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400000;msg=4
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