Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Anthony Towns writes ("Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*"):
> This is exactly the sort of thing I think we should simply ignore rather
> than issue any sort of ruling on. It's simply not important enough to
> be an issue. ie, unless someone on the tech ctte wants to champion the
> submitter's cause, I think we should simply reassign the bug back to
> mixmaster and close it. Err, if it's actually been assigned to the ctte
> by now.

I find it hard to understand this suggestion of yours.  Are you saying
that in general, if we disagree with the submitter of a bug, we should
not issue a formal decision saying so, but instead just sit on our
hands ?

That would seem like an odd way of carrying on.  Obviously if a
particular submitter was very vexatious we might decide not to
entertain any more of their complaints but that would be something
more akin to what is now called a `civil restraint order' in the civil
courts of England and Wales.

But I don't think anyone is suggesting that in this case.  We just
think the submitter is wrong.  It seems to me that we should say so.

Ian.