Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <cobaco@skolelinux.no> writes:

> - 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

I think this is significantly more than the OP was proposing. I also
think that it's unreasonable to expect that *every* bug, no matter the
severity, should receive this treatment before allowing a new version
to migrate to testing.

> the point is not acknowledging the existence of the bug, it's
> acknowledging the effort of the submitter and expressing an
> appreciation for it.

If I receive automatic notification from the BTS that the maintainer
has attached a "confirmed" tag to the bug, that is plenty of
acknowledgement.

Anything more is expecting the package maintainer to personally stroke
the ego of every bug submitter. That should be left to the discretion
of the individual package maintainer; it is not a reasonable
criterion, I feel, for preventing a package to migrate to testing.

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