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Re: latest gnome packages not in sid?



* Adrian Bunk 

| 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.

In addition, it shows that somebody besides yourself care about the
software you are packaging.  Which is a nice thing, IMHO.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.



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