On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:44:05PM -0600, Anthony W. Juckel wrote: > Sorry about the mistake. I'm just now heading down the road to becoming > a Debian developer, so my knowledge of policy is not quite up to par > yet, I'll admit. Well, Debian's non-technical policies are scattered all over the place and some aren't documented at all. > I wasn't attempting to file an inflated bug report in order to be > obnoxious, I was simply trying to be thorough. I was in a bit of a > rush though, and I didn't realize that strace log was that large. It's all right; someone caught the report before it stalled xfree86's propagation into testing. (Now it appears to be stalled for other reasons... *sigh*.) > I apologize for stepping on anyone's toes. I can understand your > frustration with the report. I really appreciate you taking time to > spell out the policy issue for me. I should have been aware of it, but > thank you for reminding me. As for the strace logs, that was just poor > judgement on my part. I'll be more careful in the future. > > Thank you for all the work that you and your team have put into the > XFree packages. Don't sweat it; there's no grudge to be borne here. I only quoted stuff at you because I figured 1) it would tell you where to look in the future to resolve similar questions in the future and 2) it's better to back up one's opinion than just say "no, you're wrong", or "no, I disagree" and change the bug's attributes. Sometimes the latter approach is necessary because things are undocumented or subjective, but I try to avoid it. Thanks again for your report. I do still find myself wondering WTF caused the XFree86 X server to emit that bizarre diagnostic... -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@debian.org | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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