On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:57:46PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:03:28AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Of course, this is trivial, but fixing this bug (251 days old) is > > also trivial. Then why complain ? I feel that it gives a bad image of > > debian, when it suggests to use a broken tool while another one is being > > repaired. > > But if you read this bug (#307833), you'd see that the maintainer doesn't > consider it a bug, and has documented why in the README file. > > You could of course disagree about whether it's a bug or not, but in that > case, you would want to appeal to the tech-ctte, not debian-devel.
There are technical ways to solve the problem (e.g. to depend on wget|curl and to detect which one is available at start up). If the mainatiner is willing to give more input than 'it is not a bug' on what behaviour he would accept, we can probably come up with a patch. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
