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Re: latest gnome packages not in sid?



On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 16:04, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On 17 Dec 2001, Shaya Potter wrote:
> 
> > > Then, why dont you go off and file some wishlist "new upstream revision"
> > > bugs?
> >
> > Because when I was a maintainer, I didn't like spurious bug reports.  I
> > assume the maintainer knows about the new versions, and therefore has
> > some logic why its not being packaged, and he does, and we're discussing
> > it.
> 
> Really? I'm often happy and I see other maintainers that are happy when
> they get "new upstream version" wishlist bug reports - it does sometimes
> happen that for any reason you did oversee a new version. And even when
> you didn't package the new version for a reason the wishlist bug is a nice
> reminder that you want to package the new version at some time in the
> future.

I understand that, and I wouldn't get mad if I was a maintainer and
someone did that, however, as its not something I would prefer (and
there's already a wishlist bug on it) I have just been conributing my 2
cents to the already filed bug.



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