Re: How to handle unreproducible RC bugs when the submitter is MIA?

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 01-Apr-05, 10:08 (CST), Frank K?ster <frank@debian.org> wrote: 
> I do not think that this bug justifies auctex's removal from testing; on
> the other hand, I don't think it would be proper to lower its severity
> before we know more.  But we cannot know whether the submitter will
> answer again and allow us to decide, and possibly fix or reassign,
> before sarge is frozen.  
> 
> How should this bug be handled?

Downgrade it, tag it as unreproducible (or whatever that exact tag is),
and don't worry about it. It's clearly not 'grave', since it doesn't
seem to affect anyone else, and presumably the submitter is not the only
Debian auctex user .

Steve

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