Re: wheezy postmortem re rc bugfixing

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le mercredi 08 mai 2013 à 16:51 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : 
> * Try to identify the main ways in which bugs can be "hard" (which
>    might be technical, political, or a mixture)

One of the general problems I have been running into include several
(sometimes all) of the following patterns.

      * Few users affected by the bug, and they are not necessarily
        skilled enough to test updated packages. 
      * Maintainers able to fix the affected packages not able (or
        willing to setup something complex) to test the fix. 
      * Maintainers with not enough time to work on the release and more
        focused on experimental. 
      * Consequences of poor upstream design choices. 
      * Upstream insisting (sometimes rightfully) that the only
        reasonable fix is a major update incompatible with the freeze
        policy, sometimes with an impact on dozens of other packages.

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