On Sunday 16 October 2005 01:49, Dan Langille wrote: > No temperature being raised here. I'm asking questions so as to > understand the process better.
I apologize if I got your intention wrong. Sounded like bashing for me. > > > Yes, there could be. I would expect you to establish that there was > > > a bug before logging a bug report. That sounded strange to my ears like you implied I should magically verify I really found a bug instead of having an administrative problem here. I couldn't imagine how I was to do that since I'm not a Bacula developer. Many bug reports I've seen sound like "process foobar has disappeared - the last log line I found was yipyap" instead of "the pointer assignment in line 3917 of the devices.c is not checking the return value". In the case I reported the storage daemon just seems to disappear. I didn't attach an strace to it or look into the source code yet. > > > That process sounds inefficient and places too much work upon the > > > packager. I didn't not invent this procedure. It was established long before I started to be involved in Debian. But it works pretty well. And Debian users appreciate that they do not have to find out whether there is a problem in the upstream package, a problem in the way the Debian package was built, a side-effect with another package or just a misconfiguration. People can check whether other users encountered the same problem (that's the first thing they are asked when they tell of problems with a package). And often there are workarounds in the bug reports that help you get the software working before a fixed package can be provided publicly. Kind regards Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
