On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:15:42 +0400 Olleg Samoylov <olleg@mipt.ru> wrote: > > > defoma is in the process of being removed from Debian, there is no point > > > filing bugs against it since they will be closed when fontconfig stops > > > build-depending on it and it is removed. > > Don't just close this bug. :) Closing is the right thing to do. It remains closed. It's not as if the original bug report contained anything which would have helped fix the bug if defoma was still being developed. The only thing that came out of your bug report was yet another reason to remove defoma, not that it lacked sufficient reasons already. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651494 for details of the removal. > At least you have to change description of > package defoma to: "Defoma doesn't work, don't have to work and will not > work, this is not a bug, but a feature". :) Packages which are scheduled for removal cannot have their package descriptions modified to indicate removal. Changing the description requires a new upload which is a complete waste of time when the next action on the package will be deletion. (Many packages are removed because the package fails to build, so making a new upload would be impossible. If the build could be fixed, the package probably wouldn't get removed.) When packages are removed, all bugs for that package are closed without any other intervention, no matter the severity of the bug. When defoma is finally removed, you would have received much the same message from ftp-masters. There is no point keeping bugs open against defoma. There is no way that your bug report can be fixed other than by removing defoma, so the bug is better closed. If your fonts aren't working, purge defoma from your system and see whether fontconfig is actually working. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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