Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Quoting Scott Talbert (2024-01-31 16:49:59)
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately it is not likely that the package will be catch up soon,
> > > because the Haskell team upgrade most Haskell libraries only as a whole.
> > >
> > > That issue is not tracked in debbugs, because those vocal in the Haskell
> > > team actively discourages the use of debbugs:
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2024/01/msg00012.html
> >
> > Note: I don't discourage usage of debbugs.  It's just that I'm unlikely to
> > notice bugs immediately due to the way debbugs notifications work.
>
> The net effect of a) silence in response to filing bugreports, b)
> responses when reporting issues to Haskell mailinglist, and even c) you
> [dissing] my explicit attempts at steering conversation to the
> bugtracker is discouragement of using the bugtracker.
>
> - Jonas
>
> [dissing]: Sorry, I cannot find any other way to describe what you
> did when you replied to the list when I posted
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2024/01/msg00003.html and wrote
> "Meh" when I posted
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2024/01/msg00010.html

With respect to "silence in response to filing bug reports": Debian is a 
volunteer project.  There is no service level agreement for bug response 
time, or expectation even that a bug will ever get responded to.

My "meh" was in response to you insisting that the conversation be moved 
to the bug tracker.  I was explicitly stating that I was okay with 
discussing bugs on the mailing list and NOT insisting that they be moved 
to the bug tracker.  The bug tracker is not user friendly for some users, 
so I personally am fine with receiving reports through other means and 
will not insist everyone use the BTS.

Scott