Re: Installed gnome-applets 1.2.0-1 (source i386)

[tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> >>>> "TBB" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> TBB> Bug 64475 is not easy at all to fix correctly; it might even be
> TBB> impossible in the current architecture of the applet.  So I asked
> TBB> Mr. Marillat how the new version works, given his claim that it's
> TBB> fixed.  He has not replied to this mail.
> 
> Sometime I need to sleep.

So we have three bugs which you claim to have fixed in the latest
package, but you don't know, in fact, whether they were fixed.  That
means should not have done what you in fact did: which is to keep
track of bugs and only close them when they are closed.

This is perhaps THE most important job for a Debian maintainer to do.
If you can't do it, you shouldn't be maintaining such an important
package. 

> TBB> Given this, I would strongly suggest that all of these bugs be
> TBB> repoened (against gnome-applets, of course).
> 
> If you want ... In the same times, you can do a bug report to the
> upstream author. I don't now why people submit upstream bug to the
> Debian BTS.

It is the job of the Debian maintainer to submit bug reports upstream,
and, when a new version comes out, to verify which Debian BTS bugs
have been fixed and which have not, and only close the ones the Debian
maintainer can verify are fixed.

Unless I hear a raft of objections, I will issue re-opening BTS
commands on Monday.