* David L. Moreno [Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:21:41 +0200]:
You are expected to CC submitter of your bug reports, btw; or use
-submitter.
> Debian is a cooperative project based on volunteer work,
in which maintainers are expected to have read and understood the
Debian Policy document.
> The disrespectful manners in which this bug report was redacted show
> It's author's lack of appreciation for the work of others. Disrespect,
> bigotry and rudeness do much more harm to a cooperative project like
> Debian than a FTBFS bug.
The bitternes of this bug report comes from the state of shock the
submitter was left in after learning that a person with a key in the
Debian keyring had uploaded a package with such build-depends line to
our archive, and that a maintainer had ___neglected___ to instruct
himself about Build-Depencencies after receiving a bug like #300309,
which clearly shows he does not grasp them.
So, yes; this was a public lart the message of which was "HEY DUDE
WAKE UP". It was not about a package FTBFSing, of which we have
plenty, but about a maintainer failing to meet the minimum expected
level of competence or, at least, will to learn -- of which I'm slowly
discovering we may have plenty too. :/
> This bug report lacks any proper description of the problem and no
> hints of how to solve it.
Look at the subject; and Steve's mail, now.
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