Re: Branden's Platform in German, Spanish, Italian, and (some) French

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:28:42PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> 
> > As I balance, I think we should make it clearer to bug submitters that
> > they can re-open bugs and that feedback is encouraged.
> 
> What about where a bug is closed by the maintainer on the mere hope
> that it has been fixed by upstream?
> 
> I have been told more than once by Debian developers (Christian
> Marillat is a prime offender) that "this bug is now fixed in
> upstream", and had the bug closed then, even though no Debian package
> has been uploaded.

That is a bug in the maintainer.

> Or had a bug closed because "upstream won't fix it".  Or had a raft of
> bugs closed when a new upstream release happens, and when I ask: "are
> you sure this is fixed, nothing in the changelog mentions it", I'm
> told that it's my responsibility to check and reopen the bug if it's
> still there.

Likewise.

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 - mdz