Re: dehs will stop
su, 2005-03-06 kello 19:28 +0100, Thiemo Seufer kirjoitti:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > Do *not* file 6229 bugs about the same subject. Never.
>
> Why not? As wishlist bugs with patch this seems sensible to me.
Denial of service attacks on the bug tracking system, on mailing lists,
mail servers, and maintainers is unappreciated. 6229 bug reports would
result in all sorts of unnecessary and unwanted load on all sorts of
systems and people. It is because of reasons like these that mass-filing
of bugs must always be discussed on debian-devel beforehand, so that the
utility of the bug reports can be weighed against the load and
disruption they cause.
In this situation, I think it is clear that filing 6229 *wishlist* bugs
is completely unwarranted.
> If upstream doesn't publish tarballs, e.g. In this case there won't be
> a meaningful patch for a watchfile. In any case it's up to the
> maintainer to decide about its inclusion. I believe most of them will
> accept such a patch.
Having the watch information in the package means the information
becomes stale: when the package is part of a Debian release the watch
information won't get updated when the upstream web site moves, or the
download URL changes, or whatever. Having a centralized database (say,
part of package.debian.org) allows that information to be updated
centrally, continuously, and also without disturbing a thousand
developers with it.
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