Re: Reporting unmaintained packages
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:19:00PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 20:02:37 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged, not closed. You could do it if
> > > you are confident in your judgement. A more pertinent point is whether
> > > you should be concerned yet about a lack of the response. There could
> > > be a perfectly good reason for it. A year can be but the blink of an
> > > eyelid in Debian's calendar. :)
> >
> > Right, meanwhile the bug submitter is sitting around in the dark
> > wondering what the story is.
>
> So, in addition to what the bug submitter has been told, the following
> advice is offered . . . . . Well?
A year is a long time to wait for an update on a bug report is what I'm
saying. Also, I'm under the impression that the bug submitter doesn't
automatically get sent any responses to the bug report. The reasons,
apparently, are because developers submit many bugs, some MBF, and don't
want to be 'swamped' with mail because of it.
So I'm guessing the submitter has to check the bug number from time to
time to check for any progress.
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