On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:31:56PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > tags 279927 - wontfix > thanks > > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 18:31, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Frans Pop tagged this bug "wontfix" on 8 November 2004, saying: > > We will keep this patch until after RC2 and see if it can still be > > applied then. > > > > As I understand it, the RC2 release has long since happened, but as far > > as I can tell no one looked back into this, probably assuming the > > "wontfix" tag implied "forever". > > That is correct, but at that time RC2 was to be the final build for Sarge, > which, as I am sure you know, it turned out it wasn't. Yes. > It has always looked to me as if RC3 would happen "fairly soon"; there > never was a clear date (AFAIK there still isn't). All right. > In hindsight the patch could probably have been applied after RC2. IMHO > however, at any time since RC2, my arguments for not applying it were and > still are valid. I don't understand. It could probably have been applied, but also probably shouldn't have been? > > Are there any plans to review this patch? > > I have just tested how the patch applies against the current version of > the manual and I get 100 hunks that fail (4 hunks have already been > fixed). The content of the patch has not yet really been reviewed. Sigh. > > Is there anything I can do to help expedite its review? > > Well, I don't know how you created the patch. If that was done largely > automated, it would be good if you could create a new patch after RC3. > If not, I will review the patch then. It was done almost entirely by hand. > > 2) Use a mechanism other than "tagging wontfix" to mean "postponed". > > I'm pretty sure that's not what the "wontfix" tag means.] If I am the only person who cares to see the problems I fixed addressed, then please feel free to close this bug (and re-mark it "wontfix"). I had thought I was being helpful, but if that's not the case, there's not much sense cluttering the BTS with this report. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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