On 20.03.12 Thomas Weber (tweber@debian.org) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:18:10AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Hi, > > Don't overestimate the working speed of TeX people, and underestimate > > their obstinacy. Someone may actually fix this. See #49149, fixed > > after 12 years. > > Let's assume you are a student, working on a paper. Do you think your > professor will appreciate something along the lines of "I will hand in > the paper in 12 years"? > In this specific case the caller could have used his local texmf tree. > For a system like LaTeX, if a fix doesn't come in a timeframe of > something like 4 weeks, the user reporting the bug will have found a > workaround. > Fine. But simply close bugs b/c nobody found time to work on this is not a good style, even in free software world. Please keep the bugs open, in some cases even the submitters start working on this and contribute. I this specific case I'd wait if the caller reopens the bug or not. H. P.S.: I added your other closed bug # to the TL changelog of the to be uploaded packages. -- sigmentation fault
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