>>> Gah, this anonymous submitter is annoying. His claim that this "is >>> practically impossible" is yet to be proved as I'm trying to prove the >>> opposite. >> >> I am not anonymous. > > Just a first name and an anonymous remailer is more or less anonymous > for me.
It isn't an anonymous remailer; this is my actual email address - you can send Bitmessages to it as well. :-) Thanks for pointing out about me only giving my first name - I didn't realise this. I'll need to change my reportbug configuration. > RMS declaring that something doesn't need to be free is weird. Yeah, he seems to be upset with Debian, because he says that we distribute non-free software. >> I even tried making a phone call to someone after looking up their >> name in the white pages. > > Thanks! I actually would only try that in my own country... Same. After looking at a wayback machine copy of Nikolai Kingsley's homepage, I discovered he lived in Victoria, just like me. Unfortunately, I got an answering machine message. :) >> The reason that I filed the RM request was that the RC bug on >> funny-manpages was left open for several hundred days, with no >> action. > > Despite they are different authors and nobody had tried to contact > them before? Sorry, from my PoV this is clearly not the same. You're probably right, but at the time I made the decision because the maintainer of asr-manpages was the same as the maintainer of funny-manpages. fwiw, I saw that John Guthrie's email bounced. Have you considered contacting the math department of the University of Pennsylvania to see if they know where he is now? >> Since it seemed that nobody cared about this issue with >> funny-manpages, I saw no reason to assume that anyone would care >> about it with asr-manpages. > > I didn't try it with funny-manpages as there were more or less no > authors listed in there. But in asr-manpages, most authors were listed > and it was clear that the original postings can be found in the usenet > group alt.sysadmin.recovery. For me that's a huge difference and the > reason why I started the effort for asr-manpages, but not for > funny-manpages. Okay, now I see why you'd want to help fix asr-manpages but not funny-manpages. Having the list of authors' names and email addresses is a big advantage over not having them. >> Now that you are making an effort to fix it, that's great. I *want* >> asr-manpages to be in Debian. I just don't think that you are likely to >> get permission from all, or even most, of the authors, and especially >> not in time for the jessie release. > > Not anymore after the package has been removed earlier than needed, > no. IMHO, there was a small chance before the removal. *sigh* *sigh*. Hopefully in Debian 9. > (I can see that result of the effort around funny-manpages can be > demotivating and frustrating. But someone taking away the chance to > get something fixed in time is demotivating and frustrating, too. So > please be less impatient when you file an RM bug next time.) Okay, I will. Just confirming, in future would it be okay to file an RM bug against a package with an RC bug that hasn't seen activity in a year, provided I express my intentions in the report and give the maintainer a week to respond? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
