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Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2



On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 08:41:32AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > If you look at the list today, you will see many ancient bug reports on
> > locales and timezones which pre-date glibc. How does one deal with these?
> > 
> > I am tempted to close all "ancient" bug reports on principle, but that
> > certainly violates the spirit, if not the letter of policy.
> 
> That sounds familiar. :-) The boot-floppies package has some "ancient"
> bug reports that are difficult to deal with (hardware-specific bugs). Is
> it OK to contact the bug submitter more than one year after he submitted
> the report, just to tell him, "is this bug already present in Debian 2.0"?
> 
I do try to do that, but what do you do when the mail gets bounced because
the reporter is not at that address any longer?

Waiting is,

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