On Jo, 15 mai 14, 13:43:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes ("Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)"): > > Last time someone (Bcc'd) tried to tackle these (admittedly without > > contacting the maintainer in advance) the contributor was prevented > > from doing so and was requested to either check them against emacs24 > > or leave them alone. It's not hard to imagine what happened... > > One of my bugs was involved in this situation and I was one of the > people (the person?) who objected. I contacted the maintainer who > agreed with me that the bugs should not have been closed. After > discussion the contributor's actions were reverted. My impression (unknown-package@ wasn't CCed from the beginning) was that the objection was a bit confrontational. I can't tell if this was the cause, but the contributor reverted all his changes as requested and hasn't touched any orphaned bug since. > I don't think it is appropriate to mass-close bug reports without > approval from the maintainer. Failing to get the maintainer's opinion > was not a minor communication error - it was a critical mistake, > because it led to harmful (if well-meaning) action by the contributor. I completely agree that the maintainer should be contacted. What should happen if the maintainer doesn't react? > It's true that some packages are so overwhelmed with bugs, and have so > much churn in the code, that old bug reports are nearly worthless. In > such a case I can see that the maintainer might have a policy of > closing some categories of old bug reports. This is obviously not a > desirable situation, but it might be the least bad approach to a > difficult situation. For this concrete case, might I suggest following course of action: 1. ping all submitters of emacs21 (and related) bugs to test against recent emacs (at a minimum emacs23 from wheezy) and deal with the bug as needed 2. if no response within a reasonable amount of time (3 months?) mass-close them According to my script this applies to 162 bugs, of which some are in the 5 (five) digit range and only 1 (one) bug number is higher than 500000. List attached. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
• #366638 [n|+|=] [emacs21] dpkg --set-selections for emacs • #40474 [n| | ] [emacs21] general: Emacs packages should use --no-site-file --no-init-file for compilation • #46612 [n| | ] [emacs21] Keyboard fix for emacs20*.deb • #48864 [n| | ] [emacs21] automatic site-specific subdirs in load-path not added • #48987 [n| | ] [emacs21] Bug or incompatibility with previous face.el version? • #109145 [n| | ] [emacs21] supercite does not honour sc-nested-citation-p for blank lines with sc-cite-blank-lines-p set to `t' • #115440 [n| | ] [emacs21] vc: Buffers important messages from cvs • #117371 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: toolbar disabling decreases window height • #117502 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: ange-ftp doesn't save correctly • #117956 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: select-tags-table, tags-reset-tags-tables don't work right • #118197 [n| | ] [emacs21] Menubar steals focus from main window • #119174 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: cannot set visible/ignored-headers in .gnus • #119516 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: vc-comment-search-* behave oddly: delete contents of current source buffer and show comment instead • #121441 [n| | ] [emacs21] elisp mode shading errors • #121553 [n| | ] [emacs21] incorrect shading of quotes in latex mode • #121573 [n| | ] [emacs21] incorrect indentation due to open brace in latex mode • #125960 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs20: garbage with font -misc-fixed-17 • #127198 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: gnus can no longer read nndraft:drafts • #128385 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: background colors are wrong in -nw mode • #128610 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Dead key (^) not working in emacs21 • #131449 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: contains disallowed emacs/XY.Z/site-lisp directory. • #131862 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: vc-next-action is very poor at detecting current version is not the newest • #132910 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Sgml-mode C-c C-n can't take composed characters. • #134403 [n| |=] [emacs21] emacs21: Please consider naming features in the description • #136078 [n| | ] [emacs21] auto-revert-mode corrupting files with cvs checkin • #144806 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Cut-and-paste under X is not i18n-aware • #150138 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: query-replace non-intuitive on overlapping matches • #152044 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: ps-print globally sets ps-left-header in Gnus • #157227 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs20: X selection misbehavior • #162322 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: emacs segfaults under X on mips • #166193 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs: SEGVs • #167141 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs loses track of line numbers • #167820 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: load-path incorrectly initialized • #170794 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: vc-next-action-on-file fails to handle RCS owner changes • #171011 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: More scrolling problems • #171461 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: scroll-margin & show-trailing-whitespace conflict • #171736 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: custom-make-dependencies sort breakage • #176322 [n| | ] [emacs21] dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage confused by compliant version number • #180960 [n| |=] [emacs21] emacs21: upgrade breaks running gnusae • #184030 [n|u| ] [emacs21] emacs21: MULE refuses to save file in UTF-8 when it should have no trouble • #186137 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: mouse-1 in vertical scroll bar has changed • #190591 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: menu-bar-update-hook spontaneously becomes nil • #192684 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21 and c-comment-start-regexp • #197558 [n| | ] [emacs21] corrupts terminal if tcgetpgrp != getpgrp • #201972 [n| |=] [emacs21] emacs21: cyrillic-beylorussian input method is incorrect • #203005 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Emacs21 does not honor customized default font across frames. • #205122 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: compose-mail improperly handles attachments • #211381 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Big fonts and widgets after upgrade from woody to sid • #213683 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: delete large block of text -> timed out waiting for property-notify event • #216396 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Emacs crash on forwarding spam in vm • #216609 [n| | ] [emacs21] bury-buffer inconsistent: won't display unburied *Man xxx* buffers; breaks buffer stacking/popping • #220810 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: skeleton-pair not defined in sh-script-mode • #222215 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: source package patch - misc-unseparated.dpatch uses absolute instead of relative paths • #222725 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Hidden text (with allout.el or folding.el) garbled on save when LANG=en_US.UTF-8 • #225411 [n| | ] [emacs21] Info-goto-node appears to be case insensitive • #232368 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: shell-script bug with 'case' • #237200 [n| | ] [emacs21] random freeze issue • #237412 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: emacs enters debugger at end of buffer when in LaTeX mode • #238811 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: inappropriately complains 'Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p' • #240917 [n| | ] [emacs21] SIGSEGV on installation of dictionaries-common • #243893 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: movemail moves more mail than Emacs can handle • #254620 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: server for emacsclient dies every few minutes • #258114 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: cut-and-paste problem • #266336 [n| | ] [emacs21] xterm changes meta-X to meta-8 in en_US.UTF-8 locale • #267903 [n| | ] [emacs21] rmail-resend drops MIME headers • #272492 [n| | ] [emacs21] /usr/bin/emacs21-x: emacs quits if display becomes unavailable • #278209 [n| | ] [emacs21-el] emacs21-el: .pdf should not be in completion-ignored-extensions • #280572 [n| | ] [emacs21-el] ada-mode: defaults to using gcc • #282421 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] RefTeX do not support LaTeX-package called multibib • #291017 [n|R| ] [emacs21] ${$ret->{foo}} breaks indentation in perl mode • #291564 [n| | ] [emacs21] /usr/bin/emacs21-x: man pages not formatted quite right • #295739 [n| | ] [emacs21] handle-switch-frame: Symbol's function definition is void: nil • #297156 [n| | ] [emacs21] Changing the font size interacts badly with the ion window manager • #300934 [n| | ] [emacs21] Frames opened after changing the font size get the original font size. • #319358 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: compile-mode fails with error 129 on some ant compilations • #320434 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: etags man page breaks alternatives • #322035 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: iso8859-1 font problem • #339542 [n| | ] [emacs21-nox] emacs21-nox: split window horizontally doesn't work • #345555 [n| | ] [emacs21] Ctrl-L changes position in other windows • #355874 [n| | ] [emacs21-el] emacs21-el: some perl files are not corectly colored by perl-mode • #360495 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: smtpmail-open-stream does not use starttls properly • #365515 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: refcard formatted incorrectly with 2 or 3 columns/page [patch] • #372837 [n| | ] [emacs21] /usr/bin/emacs21-x: Scrolling problems • #377768 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs: Shell completion features search wrong directory for in-directory word completion • #389978 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Cut and pasting text containing Danish characters into Firefox doesn't work • #394439 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: emacs under X mode fails to start over a VNC session • #397159 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: non-bmp unicode broken • #399114 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: rare gnus bug, intern ( ) broken? • #399156 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Choosing from *Completions* buffer fails if insert-default-directory is nil • #401915 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: often hangs on startup • #406546 [n| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: octave-mod.el conflicts with octave2.{1,9}-emacsen • #416462 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: x-select-enable-clipboard broken • #418198 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: emacs freezes for 5s on startup • #422550 [n| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: CVS mode doesn't work for me • #422608 [n| | ] [emacs21] incorrect font metrics with truetype font • #423442 [n| | ] [emacs21-el] Emacs loads to much from site-start.el • #427167 [n| | ] [emacs21-bin-common] emacs21-bin-common: rcs2log prints "author <author@foobar>" instead of the username (fixed in cvs' rcs2log) • #528363 [n| | ] [emacs21] Emacs freezing (most likely due to malloc hooks). • #256191 [m| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: emacs installed and configured succesfully in spite of lack of disk space, causing problems in other places • #262574 [m| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: minor display bug in emacs top level info display (dir) • #288222 [m| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: `browse-url-galeon' misleading description • #291549 [m| | ] [emacs21] during latex compilation, the interstices of emacs flash • #298641 [m| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: seen on installation • #298925 [m| | ] [emacs21] emacs20: manpage naming system confuses man • #307307 [m| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: symlinks for /usr/share/doc/emacs21{,-nox,-bin-common} • #401792 [m| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: docstring for c-indent-region is incorrect • #411100 [m|U| ] [emacs21-bin-common] emacs21-bin-common: emacsclient report success when it's failing • #150422 [m|M| ] [emacs21] emacs21: other-frame requires wm to give focus to 'primary' frame • #23515 [w|+|=] [emacs21] Visible iso-accents-mode • #130399 [w|+| ] [emacs21] emacs21: No latin-9-postfix input method? • #236147 [w|+u| ] [emacs21-el] emacs21-el: comment-region: treat C-u - arg as C-u • #379659 [w|+| ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: Please integrate w3m-el browser into browse-url... commands. • #18204 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs20: bruce doesn't work • #26348 [w| | ] [emacs21] Mime support for emacs • #27399 [w| | ] [emacs21] latin 1 not standard • #28708 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs: font is too big & request for feature • #44709 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs20: TeX mode doesn't understand \( \) and \[ \] • #65479 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs20: Tab spacing in emacs 20 is erratic • #68803 [w| | ] [emacs21] rmail: unnecessary saving upon checking for new mail • #77832 [w| | ] [emacs21] nicer defaut colors for emacs • #89072 [w| | ] [emacs21] a variable debian-version would be useful • #100855 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs20; Add auto-save for spooled PostScript • #102290 [w| | ] [emacs21] completion in emacs shell mode work like it does from xterm • #120054 [w| |=] [emacs21-el] emacs20-el: maildir support for display-time • #125946 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs20: session management • #128287 [w| | ] [emacs21-common] emacs21-common: rcs2log is duplicated in package cvs • #128748 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: M-x word-count (from xemacs) is missing? • #130556 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21 should suggest figlet for artist-mode • #144072 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: drop shadow on logo indicates two light sources • #149341 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Please document that `show-paren-mode' is influenced by `blink-matching-paren-distance' • #167805 [w| | ] [emacs21-el] emacs21-el: separate .el from .elc files to make debugging more convenient • #168102 [w| | ] [emacs21] cxref: Syntax highlighting within comments • #186774 [w| | ] [emacs21] GNU Emacs 21: desktop.el security weakness? • #187624 [w| | ] [emacs21] command line switch parameter for modern window managers • #202033 [w| | ] [emacs21] possibility to 'close' a function • #208855 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Missing mouse support for the console • #241596 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Add alternate name to run terminal-only EMACS (no X window) • #242242 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: no way to switch mail indicator OFF • #257786 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Add M-RET as keybinding for indent-new-comment-line • #291149 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: when switching buffers, list of completions should exclude current buffer • #344719 [w| | ] [emacs21-bin-common] emacs21-bin-common: Please add an /etc/mailcap entry for emacsclient • #351933 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Please include filename in the window title under X • #367040 [w| | ] [emacs21] cwarn-mode RFE: highlighting mismatched parentheses • #369355 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: Please suggest python-mode • #393527 [w| | ] [emacs21] want completion for all words in /usr/share/dict/words • #411808 [w| | ] [emacs21-common] please ship MIT illustrated tutorial in etc directory • #438687 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: provide info on where and how the correct version of the manual can be obtained • #449073 [w| | ] [emacs21-el] latin-1-postfix to convert L- to British pounds (patch included) • #131141 [w|☹| ] [emacs21] emacs21: Could emacs21 package be split in managable chunks? • #85293 [n| |=↝] [emacs21] emacs: xterm emacs description is too dumb • #112094 [n| |↝] [emacs21] emacs20: Repeatable segfault prompted by cwd • #117326 [n| |↝] [emacs21] emacs21: "revert buffer" dialog doesn't set font color • #134429 [n| |↝] [emacs21] preview-latex: Images taller than the screen size cause problems • #139191 [n| |=↝] [emacs21] emacs21: Gnus does not subscribe user to default groups • #139487 [n| |↝] [emacs21] Gnus: nntp backend doesn't reauthenticate after a dropped connection • #169137 [n| |↝] [emacs21] emacs21: try-expand-line-all-buffers broken in hippie-expand • #193483 [n| |↝] [emacs21] emacs21: meta-delete has wrong default binding; should be "kill-word" • #340211 [n| |↝] [emacs21] ADA-Mode: "Symbol's function definition is void: ada-indent" • #384993 [n| |↝] [emacs21-bin-common] emacs21-bin-common: movemail loops if hard links are not supported • #481182 [n| |↝] [emacs21-el] emacs21-el: Fortran keywords .EQV. and .NEQV. not highlighted • #173206 [m| |↝] [emacs21] emacs21: Use of non-standard header without X- before • #118914 [w| |↝] [emacs21] emacs21: Home and End key do not work as before.
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