On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:13:43PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes: > > It's my impression that Ryan is atypically hostile towards NMUers; > > however, the case here for an NMU, at least as it's been presented to > > this mailing list, doesn't seem very strong. It would be better to have > > the issues concretely documented in the BTS before attempting to hijack. > > Maybe the reasons why the new upstream is so much better than the > > current package are obvious to you -- they're certainly not obvious to > > me. > > This is *not* a NMU problem, but a maintainer problem! > > I've no pb with this "don't NMU", but with the fact that the maintainer > doesn't add any comment on the bug report in 2 months to give his advice > (and he's not away, the reponse to the NMU comment was some hours after > send), doesn't reponse to comments on bug report, doesn't reply to mail, > etc ... That's been my experience as well. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=108715&archive=yes (Note in particular the time estimates provided, and contrast this with when things actually happened.) -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk branden@debian.org | around on the Moon?" http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | "Because they wore heavy boots."
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