On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:41:57PM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote: > This is from the perspective of a non-DD systems administrator. While most > maintainers are good. Some are pretty lousy with regard to addressing issue > even when one is proactive about finding a solution. > > On Monday 26 February 2007 14:55, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I don't believe any maintainer of > > packages, given enough hours in the day, would fail to respond to > > reasonable bug reports. > > I don't agree with this statement. I have dealt with some maintainers that > refuse to acknowledge a bug when I report it. At the worst, the maintainer > makes some wild assumption and code dumps a new revision of their package. > That action causes me to have to totally work around their packages to make > things work. > > The aoetools package is a fine example of this phenomenon. I have to > completely override what that package does with it's init script to get my > aoe devices working. [1] is a good example of a maintainer refusing to > acknowledge any level of my trying to help find a solution for a bug.
In all fairness, you didn't seem to comment on his response to your suggestion. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387552;msg=30;att=0). This seems to be more of a case of not liking his solution than having a legitimate grievance? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
