Bug#24067: Is it ok to close a bug without fixing it?
Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
Santiago> Manoj, this bug was not a proposal to be accepted or rejected.
Santiago> I reassigned this bug to debian-policy because of a
Santiago> disagreement between the maintainer and the submitter,
Santiago> following Ian Jackson's recommended procedure about
Santiago> disagreements in bugs reports.
Where does this recommendation occur? The policy package is
not a catch all for any and sundry bug reports. Any such
recommendations are definitely outdated now, and certainly are not
part of any document I could find. Please take this to some other
package. This is not something that the policuy group can do
something about.
If there is really a matter of great import, call for a
general resolution. If it is really important, people can vote on it,
and get this resolved.
Santiago> The maintainer should explain the reason why he closed the
Santiago> bug (he never did it). It could be that he does not think
Santiago> it is a bug or it could be that he does not want to fix it
Santiago> (what it seems according to the mail in which he closed the
Santiago> bug), but he never fully clarified this.
This is not a policy matter. call for a general resolution,
that is what they are for.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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