Re: Bugs against Helix package in Debian BTS
Christian, I've watched the exchange between you and others on the devel
list, and I have to say that you aren't seeming to listen to the feedback
you got so far about maintaining and the BTS. I'm not surprised to see a
bugreport war starting.
1) You chose to become a maintainer. That implies that you are willing
to not only package something, but to act as Debian's contact for that
package with the upstream. You chose that, and you need to accept the
responsibility.
2) Closing bugs is a serious thing. It says that you have checked for the
bug, or gotten some form of acknowledgment that the bug is fixed (from
upstream maybe, or other users, or from checking it yourself...) Closing
a bug without reading it? If users can't trust that the bug IS fixed,
when you close it, you are hurting everyone: users, your own reputation,
and Debian's reputation too.
3) Maybe packaging the Gnome stuff is a mistake for a new maintainer.
With Helix also packaging it, it's not something simple, it's got some
real issues, and it's still actively developed and buggy.
My recommendation would be maybe you need to rethink maintaining this
package. If you stepped aside, I doubt anyone would be too hard on you,
since you are a new maintainer, it's not like you have a lot of experience
with this yet. This was a big chunk to chew on. Pick something smaller
to start with instead.
If you decide to continue, maybe it's time to acknowledge that yes, you
will get bugs against Helix's package... and maybe work with Peter to
coordinate and share bugs between the 2 or something. Close the bug IF
and only if you can show the bug is gone, maybe a changelog from upstream,
or a changelog from Peter's package. Then you would have some grounds to
complain about abuse of the BTS system from this user.
just my 2 cents from the crowd,
Seth
On 2 Aug 2000, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is the 3th bugs against Helix package in our BTS.
>
> I close these bug without reading them.
>
> But for one I've some problem (bug 68343).
>
> This bug has been closed 2 times and reopen 2 times. Here is the latest reopen:
>
> What I need to do ?
>
> **********************************************************************
> reopen 68343
> quit
>
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:34:03AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, but use *Debian* package not *Helix* package.
> >
> > If can't accept bug against a non Debian package.
>
> But I am reasonably convinced that this bug exists in the Debian package
> too. So far you haven't convinced me otherwise.
>
> > I reclose this bug.
>
> I'm happy to play this game with you.
>
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