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Bug#764401: Are you planning to take over mksh in Debian?



On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Kenneth Pronovici dixit:
>>I'll file a Debian bug to document the improvements I asked for, just
> Please DO NOT file Debian bugs for upstream issues in mksh,
> only for packaging issues.
>
> This has been at the top of README.Debian for ages.

Thorsten,

I'm not trying to be snarky here, but I'm a little lost.  This package
is orphaned.  If you're no longer the package maintainer, why should
it even matter to you whether upstream issues are tracked as Debian
bugs?

I filed the bug so nothing would get lost while the package is
orphaned, which seems like a reasonable thing to do.  The next
maintainer might very well have a different policy for Debian bugs
than you did.  I would if it were my package.

Besides that, this is arguably a functional regression vs. older
versions of pdksh in Debian, which mksh now provides.  I think it's
useful to have the change in behavior noted, even if it is only a
wishlist.

KEN

-- 
Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>


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