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Re: Please don't non-bugs in changelog (again)



Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:16:05PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> 
>> No changes made to the package, so these bugs should *not* be closed in
>> the changelog.  Instead, send a mail to bugnumber-close@bugs.d.o or
>> bugnumber-done@b.d.o noting why you're closing the bug.
>
> I'm not sure that you have to slam him for having a bit screwed up
> changelog but I'll have to for having really fucked up 
> packages. I mean, com on. Before releasing a library of this size,
> one should really check not only that it compiles but also that
> all the programs work.

Slam?  I thought I was being nice and polite.  I didn't even use a
single cuss word.

> I mean, is it so difficult to try to compile the examlpes? I mean,
> going into the hello directory in the examples and typing
>
> qmake hello
> make
>
> check if it compiles and runs?
>
> This is redicules. I might expect that there might be a missing file
> somewhere to some obscure utility or something but to have
> core utilities like qmake crap out... well.. do I really have to
> say more??

I think it's safe to say that these packages were rushed to try to get
KDE finally into unstable.

> I really believe that a maintainer of something like Qt really
> needs to be using it on day to day basis. Imagine what libc, gcc or 
> xfree86 would look like if maintainers of those packages were not
> using them.

There's a lot of different uses for Qt (does just running KDE count?).
I think a co-maintainership would definitely be useful to try to cover
more of the uses of Qt.  Or, at least the packages should be tested by a
Qt developer before being uploaded.

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