Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?
Chuck Zmudzinski [2022-08-20 16:20:21] wrote:
> That's a fair point. It may not be so easy for me to work on a bug that does not affect
> my systems, but I am willing to help with bugs important to the Debian project now, as
> the bookworm development process continues. I will take some time and see if I can
> help out with some other open bugs that do not directly affect my systems. Such bugs
> can be found by querying BTS for bugs marked as critical or grave by the maintainer
> and bugs that are blocking a release, as these are the ones most important to the
> maintainers and developers. I don't know if I have the skills to fix such bugs which are
> probably not so easy to fix, but it wouldn't hurt to ask if there is anything I can do to
> help. One thing that is always helpful are testers to test the proposed fixes for open
> bugs, and I could help with that in cases when the bug affects a package on one or more
> of my systems, at least to tell the maintainer, "that proposed fix looks good, it does not
> break anything on my systems."
Yes, there are many things one can do to help. E.g. several bugs are
misfiled (for example, sent to the Debian maintainer instead of being
sent to the package's developer even though the bug is unrelated to the
Debian packaging itself). Or often the bug report lacks information to
reproduce it.
Stefan
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