Hi Ian, Thanks for taking the time to reply.
> > > All I was trying to do was to establish was whether you're being > > > lazy/unhelpful or is there a policy which I've missed as, [...] I admit that I should have allowed a third possibility here. > There is a third possibility which is that the maintainer has made a > judgement that this bug is not worth going to special effort to fix in > the package. Policy does not need to be involved. My point is exactly that: "who makes the call?". It's not just about that package and that particular bug. Maybe there should be a clear policy, which should apply to all releases which are fully fledged (stable, testing, unstable[0]), on what is deemed to be called a bug fix - IMHO uninstall (purge rather) a package and install it again is not. Where should individual judgement end and a clear policy/good practice/standard way of doing things, start? If we scale it (might be a bit far-fetched, but it really isn't IMHO) we get to the point where personal judgement and opinion takes precedence over everything else and is quite harmful[1]. > The suggestion that someone is or might be "lazy/unhelpful" is not > appropriate. It should have read: "lazy or unhelpful or ..." but because of there being two "ORs" I shortened it. As mentioned above I think I should have included a possibility of a third one. This however doesn't change the fact that "lazy" or "unhelpful" are some of many human states of mind, and therefore I don't see it as inappropriate to enumerate them as one is perfectly entitled to them. Besides, I gave it only as an option and yes, should have included more to choose from. I didn't mean any harm by it. [0] experimental excluded for obvious reasons [1] http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47 - while the blog post itself is valuable, the links included in there show exactly what I have in mind Ta, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111008060729.GA7757@thor.local
