On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:41:06PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > Sure; but again, look at the broader context: if people aren't fixing > > trivial bugs like the gnuplot one, why should anyone else spend time > > worrying about the harder ones? Why haven't you done the appropriate > > NMU of gnuplot already, eg? > Because I've already cared more about other people's packages than I > should have, looking at my non-Debian workload. Yeah; I didn't mean that you specifically should've done it -- just that *someone* should've, and hopefully we can generalise from our reasons. > >> Do you imply that I have the first attitude, and why? > > In arguing that it's okay not to fix bugs quickly? Definitely. > I'm not saying that it's okay not to fix the bugs quickly. I'm just > saying that > - I'm fixing as fast as I can > - leaving tetex-3.0 in experimental would slow down all that even more. Yes; leaving it in experimental for as long as it was was bad too -- we *should* be able to do these things fairly quickly. > Alternatively, you could work on checking whether our complete building > toolchain runs smoothly with utf-8, submit the necessary patches, NMU if > necessary, and have the policy changed that changelog and control must > be in utf-8. And I know of more such jobs... :( I've been hiding from utf8 for years -- I don't know what the above even means. I did get lintian complaints about my encoding though... Cheers, aj
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