Re: Forward bugs upstream to myself?
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 10:41:21PM +0100, joost witteveen wrote:
> In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Andy Mortimer wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > [ I suppose this is a `meta-policy' question, and as such should possibly go
> > to debian-policy, but I'm not subscribed to that. ]
> >
> > The problem: I maintain a package (dpkg-mountable), for which I am also the
> > `upstream' author. Over a year ago now, Dirk Eddelbuettel filed a bug against
> > it (#7957), and although it's a real problem, to fix it would require a
> > radical rewrite of most of the code. Which I don't really want to do.
> >
> > I could file it as wishlist, but it seems to make a lot more sense to mark it
> > as forwarded (ie, waiting for the upstream author to get off his backside and
> > do something with it), since that gives a more accurate idea of the status of
> > the report. But it does seem a little cheeky, too ...
>
> I like it, though!
>
> D: How about #7957?
> A: Ah, I forwarded it upstream.
> D: What did upstream say?
> A: Well, he's not very active at the moment. To be honest, I've
> yet to hear back from him.
> D: Yeah, these upstream maintainers, can be a real pest some time.
*rotfl*
> > What do people think?
>
> Well, for one thing, there's nothing in the docs that is against it.
>
> And, thinking about it, I think I'll start using that feature too,
> with menu, etc. Yeah, I like it!
>
> Wonder what your upstream author things about my .sig?
Argh! Why can't I stop laughing ?
:-)
Thank you for the joke!
Marcus
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