On 05/02/18 00:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Hector wrote: >> When a maintainer tags a bug report with 'wontfix', is there not an >> expectation that they will say why? > > Obviously the Debian Developers have much freedom how to act. At least > if it is about packaging and bug report processing. > > As for Debian policy, in this case it is probably written in > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags > which says: > "wontfix > This bug won't be fixed. Possibly because this is a choice between two > arbitrary ways of doing things and the maintainer and submitter prefer > different ways of doing things, possibly because changing the behaviour > will cause other, worse, problems for others, or possibly for other > reasons." > > If i wondered about such a tag without explanation and felt affected by > the bug, then i'd mail to the bug report asking for an explanation. > > >> I was just reading a bug report that seemed valid > > Mind to share its number ? #389251 (coreutils: date's -d switch doesn't honour locale) - it's quite an old one. But I found another instance in which the same claim applies: richard@zircon:~$ date -d '4/2/2018' Mon Apr 2 00:00:00 NZST 2018 In my NZ locale, that date should be interpreted as 4 Feb. Richard
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