Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Stop abusing the Debian Bug tracking system!
>
> First and foremost, the maintainer(s) of a Debian Package are wholy
> responsible for determining the state of bugs assigned to their
> packages in the BTS unless overridden by the tech-ctte.
If they did act in a responsible way, they would not remove copyright
information and they would definitely not "close" a bug that has not been dealt
with yet. Note that in former times, when claims against my software
have been in the BTS that have been proven to be incorrect, the
bug was still not closed. So it seems that some people at Debian abuse the BTS
to act against certain people.
> Continuing to reopen bugs after they have been closed by the relevant
> maintainer will result in an exclusion from utilizing the BTS control
> interface.
So please exclude Joerg Jaspert from the BTS who did close the bug many times
although he knows that there are unhandled issues.
> If you believe the bug is being closed in error, then you should
> respond to the bug explaining precisely why there's a bug and what
> should be done to fix it, *without* reopening the bug. If you are
> unable to convince the maintainer(s) then your only recourse is to
> attempt to convince the tech-ctte to override the maintainer(s).
I did already explain recisely what the problem is. What information do you
need?
> As a final note, the Debian BTS is for reporting issues in Debian
> packages, not unpackaged or versions not distributed by Debian. Those
> issues should be brought up with the people responsible for the
> packages using whatever mechanism they utilize, not the BTS.
This looks like a cheap excuse. Please note that we are talking about a
Copyright violation on svn.debian.org
Jörg
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