Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:18:11AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> You might not be aware of [1,2,3]. Reading the (originally) Cc'd
> bugreport might help…
You are right. I'm not aware of this. You are irritating me a bit:
The thread was about 'gpredict', not about wdg-html-validator, hu?
And as far as I see the maintainer of gpredict is pretty active, so the idea to
orphan this package and hijack it seems a bit odd.
That wasn't critism at you, but at Charles for his idea to hijack a somewhaat
okay maintained package.
> There's no need to be a DD to answer to a (RC) bugreport. There's no
> [...]
With all this points you are right. But it doesn't matter in this case, hu?
The question is how fair would one be with developers who appearently haven't
been active on a specific question for a certain amount of time. And I say: You
could at least *directly* mail the maintainer, because if you are just in a
situation where you are pretty busy with other things (eventually private
things) mails from the BTS could be overseen. It is just a question of
fairness. And orphaning a package and adopting it, without ever written an
email to the previous maintainer is everything but not fair.
> I did a mistake by not closing the appropriate bug in the changelog. You
> can check that by looking at [2] and at the “Source:” line. And there's
> still no news about the maintainer of grig, which you (Patrick) dropped
> from the Cc list (along with the original bugreport).
Yeah, I dropped him from the CC list, because *my* comment was just an advise
about a common problem (how to do nmus in a sane way) directed towards you, not
specific about this certain problem. As i don't know the history, I cannot say
much about it and so I don't see a reason to spam the BTS with my comments, hu?
I just wanted to give you the tipp to follow the best practice, which is
documented in the developers reference, which seems to make sense. Not argueing
with you about your nmu or alike.
Regards,
Patrick
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