Re: Bug reports and fixes should be reported upstream
Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:
> Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:
>
> > I just approved the following posting to comp.os.linux.announce
> > (this is an excerpt only):
> >
> > From: aeb@win.tue.nl (A.E. Brouwer)
> > Subject: one more cfdisk + complaint about Debian etc.
> > Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
> > Date: Wed Apr 30 09:05:41 EEST 1997
> >
> > After announcing that I had fixed all bugs in cfdisk
> > known to me, people immediately reminded me that more
> > cfdisk problems lie hidden in the bug archives for
> > various distributions.
>
> A.E. Brouwer maintains fdisk3. He's never expressed a desire to
> maintain the old fdisk2 or cfdisk out of util-linux. One day he has
> an idle moment and decides to release an updated cfdisk. Surprise!
> The masses are grateful and point him to some other cfdisk bugs. So
> he chides them for lacking the precognition to tell him about the
> problem before he made the release.
Since I'm one of the people covered by the expression `masses' above:
Guy's description is correct. I asked Andries about his own fdisk3,
and mentioned that I have some cfdisk problems. He tould me that he'd
like to write a curses frontend for fdisk3, but it isn't done yet. He
never mentioned that he will do something on cfdisk.
Until the 0.8e announcement announcement appeared I didn't know that
he does bug-fixing work on cfdisk. So I tested 0.8e, my bug still was
there, and I immediately gave him the URL for my bug report.
I really didn't expect such a complaint by Andries.
(I have no idea whether it makes sense to discuss this with Andries.)
Sven
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