Re: Adrian Bridgett ignoring nighthawk?
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi Nathanael,
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:49:35PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode
> <neroden@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> So I'm not sure what to do. Normally, I would say that such a grossly
>> obsolete and unmaintained package should be removed from Debian. I'm
>> not really in the mood to do a NMU which packages a new upstream with
>> two major version jumps, for a package I don't personally use.
>
> How about pinging him and ask him? You can easyly do that by sending ONE
> SINGLE mail. If he does not answer, ping him again, this time CC your
> ping to debian-qa@lists.debian.org (but please also say so in your
> mail).
>
> You also filed a bug about that issue, which is good. But i don't
> understand why this is an important bug rather than wishlist.
Because who wants to play a version of a game which is six years and
two major versions out of date, when they could be playing the current
version? Well, maybe someone, but that would require a deliberate decision
and proper advertisement as to the reasons.
important: "a bug which has a major effect on the usability of the package,
without rendering it completely useless"
> You should have learned about severity of bugs and how to use them in
> your new maintainer ship time.
So should you. This is quite different from "New minor version came out
upstream a week ago". This is "Your package is grossly out of date."
If Debian was still shipping, oh, say, perl 3 as its most up-to-date version
of perl, it would not be a 'wishlist' bug.
> Greetings
> Martin
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>
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