Bug#145797: xserver-xfree86 changes keyboard repeat settings
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > No, it's not fine to close a bug without doing anything at all to fix it.
> > It's the duty of the maintainer to reproduce the bug,
> >
>
> You are not going to tell me what I need to do. I am not paid to do this, I
> try to do my best in my free time and I have several hundreds of bugs to take
> care of. If you are not happy with this I am not going to cry, I can leave
> with it. If you think it is so easy to fix the bug, just go ahead and write a
> patch instead of complaining like this and not bringing any single piece of
> help.
Please calm down and don't put things in my mouth which I never said.
I never said it would be easy to fix this bug. I just believe it would be
easy to *reproduce* (but I can be wrong, of course).
Bear in mind that I am not paid to report bugs either, or to fix bugs
in my own packages, and I also have a lot of bugs to fix. I just think we
should only close a bug after checking that it's fixed, that's all.
> Given how you consider my work, it is clear that I am not going to
> spend a lot of my time for your bug report.
That's ok, as everybody decides what to do in his free time, and I was
not asking you to fix the bug, only to leave it open until it's fixed.
> We have a lot of people
> with a completely broken X server and they are still nice with me
> when I ask them to test a lot of things. Obviously, trying to help
> them is much more interesting than trying to explain you how you
> deal with bug reports (which obviously you don't know at all).
Sorry, I don't understand the word "obviously" here. A bug is normally
closed when it's fixed, not before. If we (Debian) can't agree on such
elementary principle, we have a problem (maybe not bigger than a
broken X server, agreed, but an important one).
In either case, please go ahead and prioritize your tasks as you see
they fit. I'll try to do the same.
Thanks.
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