Re: Bug#88588: libpam-modules: pam-limits.so is broken
On 05-Mar-01, 18:13 (CST), John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> >
> >I don't see anything terribly abusive here, John. Could you point out
> >the abusive parts? Can you show me some name calling, foul language,
> >name calling, insinuations, derragotory comments, "yo mamma..."
> >references, or anything else?
>
> The public response is enough.
Public response to a bug report is ipso-facto abuse? Since when?
> Then wouldn't -user be more appropriate? There are at least three
> threads being propagated about it ATM.
Actually, no. The problem is the unstable release, which is properly
discussed on debian-devel.
> Encouraging people to not file bugs for whatever reason is contributing to
> the hiding of problems: someone's take on one bug may cast light on a
> totally separate (and possibly unreported) bug.
Oh please. When there are 5 or 10 more or less identical bug reports,
adding one more is not "contributing to the hiding of the problem". It
just occupies the developer's time, which is better spent *fixing* the
problem, so that the users will have a working system *sooner*.
Steve
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