Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:03:28AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >>Of course, this is trivial, but fixing this bug (251 days old) is >>also trivial. Then why complain ? I feel that it gives a bad image of >>debian, when it suggests to use a broken tool while another one is being >>repaired. I agree and have sent an intention to NMU. Though like Jesus Climent mentioned in the bug log, it could actually be seen as 2 bugs: a wishlist bug for trying alternatives and a release critical (at least IMHO) bug about not depending on packages which are used by the package. > But if you read this bug (#307833), you'd see that the maintainer doesn't > consider it a bug, and has documented why in the README file. It is a bug as the package is not usable without curl or wget installed. Though, I give him a chance to respond to my intention to NMU... > You could of course disagree about whether it's a bug or not, but in that > case, you would want to appeal to the tech-ctte, not debian-devel. ...before going to the Technical Committee. Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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