Re: handling bugs of udev
Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> schrieb:
> hi,
> i have a prpoblem with the maintainer of udev marco d'itri because of
> this bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286257
> what i get from marco was an rtfm.
> but i think the question is, is it ok to close a bug (here the not
> working cdrom drive) only because it is documentated in the
> readme.debian?
I am not sure, since "cdrom" is not mentioned in udev's
README.Debian. But you seem to agree with Marco that it is documented
there, so I assume that you have ide-cd and this is why your cdrom does
not work.
In this case I would say that Marco is right. Installing any package
that has to do with modules and/or kernel features always means that the
user has to check the documentation and look whether everything is going
to work in his or her setup. He then has the option of not using the
package, or changing the local configuration. It seems to me from udev's
README.Debian that there is a simple way to change your local
configuration. On the other hand, I see no easy way to automate this
during package installation (do you?).
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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