On 20 Jan 2004, David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:13:29 +1100, Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> said: > > Martin> I'll forward it. > >> Well, as far as I'm concerned, the Debian bug system provides > >> zero value to me (well, negative value, actually), so I doubt I'm > >> going to bother with it in the future. > > Martin> If you want, you can send any patches through me and I will > Martin> follow up on them. > > I'm not looking for special favors. I'm stunned at the "this is > normal" reaction that I'm getting after reporting that a bugreport > _with an available patch_ has gone _completely unanswered_ for 30 days > (even after a polite direct inquiry to the author). In fact, I was > convinced that the maintainer had vanished from the surface of the > earth, but I just found an evolution-related email from him dated 20 > Jan 2004, so I guess he's still around. It's not unique to Debian; I have had correct kernel patches go unanswered for longer than that, and I'm sure many other people have as well. Even after writing a patch, a certain amount of prompting is sometimes needed to get it in. I actually said "not unheard-of"; it's definitely on the bad end of normal. I would guess that this particular one went to the bottom of the pile because few people run Evolution on ia64. -- Martin
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