Re: Delinquent maintainers?
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:40:07AM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> Do you mean by un-migratable that it isn't in etch? ...
Yes.
> If so I have sympathy for you, but it is possible to get it by other
> means, and the bug that is keeping it out of etch means that it shouldn't
> be in Debian at all in it's current state.
Okay, but the bug can be fixed, if the maintainer would do something, or so
I understand. Saying "It's a bad bug" doesn't really mean much in that
context.
> The grave bugs you refer to are tagged unreproducible, meaning that the
> maintainer has no idea why they happen, and cannot reproduce them to try
> and investigate.
So they just sit unfixed and unremoved forever?
I did in fact notice that.
> If you are suffering from a bug that is tagged unreproducible then you
> should send an update to the bug report explaining your situation, and
> giving any information you can, and ask the maintainer to remove the
> tag. You could also aid the maintainer to try and identify what causes
> the problem so that it can be fixed.
It isn't that I'm suffering from it in the sense that it affects me, since I
CAN'T EVEN INSTALL THE STUPID PROGRAM. It's that the presence of those two
unreproducible-but-unremoved bugs keeps checkinstall out of Etch. Forever,
apparently.
> In the case of checkinstall I suggest that you try it, and if you
> encounter the problem help the maintainer to fix it. It looks like the
> chances of you hitting the bugs is slim though.
How can I fix it? [pause while I do research] Okay, it's written in C. I'm
not a C programmer.
> If all you want to do is install vlc then you can use apt pinning and
> install the version from unstable.
Sure, but I shouldn't have to, and that won't get VLC into the next Stable.
Nor will that fix the weirdly-ignored checkinstall.
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