If the maintainer is still around -- if he's posting on the list or uploading that or other packages -- he's still here. There's nothing in policy against ignoring bugs. On 28-Jan-99 John Goerzen wrote: > Again, as I said in my message, I'm not proposing removing developers that > maintain packages with bugs, or packages with very old bugs. This case is > different. The developer has literally *ignored* bugs for over 700 or 800 > days, depending on the bug. That's right -- no response to the submittor. > No evidence of any action to fix it. Nothing. Another case is where there > have been developers maintaining packages with release-critical bugs during > a freeze but have not even made any effort to fix them (I would be satisfied > by an effort of saying "I can't fix this, can anyone help?" to debian-devel) > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <>< * * -------------------- * -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ---------------* * Darren Benham * Version: 3.1 * * <gecko@benham.net> * GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>++++ P+++$ L++>++++* * KC7YAQ * E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- * * Debian Developer * PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b++++ DI+++ D++ * * <gecko@debian.org> * G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ * * -------------------- * ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---------------* =========================================================================
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