On Feb 09, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote: > I have reported bugs against backtick and suggested to change to use > the more readable alternative. The result was surprising. To quote > one message (bug closed reasoning): > > "If your development environment cannot display ` differently than ' , > you need to get a new one." Reasonable answer. > I'm askinf if it is ok to to reopen such bugs based of better QA > aspects. Possibly by providing patches if the maintainer is busy > elsewhere to handle such a "minor issue" from his perspective. No, it's not. Even if a patch is provided, handling a bug is a time consuming activity (*horribly* time consuming if the patch is for upstream code). If you really think this crusade is worth being pursued then I suggest you just mail patches to Debian maintainers for original scripts and to the upstream maintainers for the rest. -- ciao, Marco
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