Re: Lintian based autorejects

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 01 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > And that justifies forcing these people to move your pet cosmetic
> > issues to the top of their todo list?
>
>         Not my pet cosmetic issue. This is a decision taken by folks
>  in charge of the archive as to what belongs in the archive.
[…]

That's a salient point here: Manoj is filing bugs for issues the FTP
team has declared to be bugs. It's rather disingenuous to claim now that
they are one person's “pet cosmetic issues”.

>         If one team can muck with policy related bug severities, and I
>  have to just suck it up, I gave another important team the same
>  benefit.

This, though, is a distraction. I think there is something to what
you're saying about a double standard, but it's not relevant in this
case. Just because one has criticisms of team FOO's behaviour does not
mean it's relevant when discussing team BAR's behaviour.

If what you're doing has merit (and in this case I personally think it
does), then discuss its merits instead of the flaws you see in others.

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