Re: thomas's trivia crusade
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:36:27PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> So Craig has now said that he accepts that a bug has been filed
> [blah blah blah]
thomas, take your whining crusade and shove it up your arse.
(in case you're too slow to notice it, yes this is being rude to you.
and in public, no less. now you'll really have something to whine
about)
better yet, find something important to do. irrelevance and triviality
might suit you, but it's boring for everyone else.
> It seems to me that a developer who refuses to fix a bug (and in fact
> declares that he will never fix it) which could be easily fixed should
> be considered to have orphaned his packages.
find something real to complain about. it's less boring than whining
about trivia.
there are many bugs reported where the maintainer refuses to fix bugs,
even when patches are provided.
to cite an important example, i've filed several bug reports (sometimes
with patches) against sysklogd's inadequate log-rotation over the last
few years. they've all been ignored for years (until some were recently
closed as 'wontfix')
they are actually *REAL* bugs that affect the operation of the package,
not trivial items like spelling mistakes that affect nothing.
craig
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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
Fabricati Diem, PVNC.
-- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
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