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Bug#171344: xdvi sometimes uses wrong-size bitmaps



Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote:

> Scripsit Hilmar Preusse
>> On 25.05.03 Henning Makholm (henning@makholm.net) wrote:
>
>> > Ok. There seems to be a newer package in the Debian pipeline, which is
>> > currently being held back by build problems for other parts of teTeX.
>
>> teTeX 2.0 is now in sarge. Would you be so kind to close that bug?
>
> Are you talking to me (my address was in "To:" line)? In my
> understanding, closing bugs is the Debian maintainer's prerogative,
> so I'm not going to do that by myself.

The bug reporter can do this as well. 

> In any case, my personal feeling is that the bug should stay in the
> database until sarge becomes 'stable', such that woody users who
> discovers the bug and goes looking through the BTS will see that it is
> known already.

Woody users _could_ also look for archived bugs... But they don't. Me
too. This is a major problem of the bug tracking system.

Some consider it a workaround to tag these bugs "woody" - however this
is not what the tag was originally intended for. There are other people
among the maintainers who don't like that at all.

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie




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