On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de>wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Ond??ej Surı wrote: > > > examples would be useful > > > > I have no big problem pointing fingers on d-d. > > > > Example 1: Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> > > > > This: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707759 > > Or this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709568 > > I think that is a bad example. The reported error does appear when > unpakcing php5-common even if it is not caused by the package directly > but by something (ucf) it uses. It is often not clear for users if the > bug is caused by passing the wrong arguments or by a bug in the tool > being used or that a tool from another package is used at all. As > maintainer you tend to have a better understanding and can more esily spot > the right package to blame. > Nope, these are perfect examples of bugreports which suck the joy out of the packaging. I don't think you handled that bug correctly. It was a valid bug and > you just closed it without fix. A simple "bts reassign 709568 ucf" > would have sufficed. Why would I when he was able to fill the same error in grub-pc (#709567) and it was already reassigned to ucf at that time. To make ucf maintainer to also hate his life as DD? > > Or this duplicate bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707131 > > Wrong bug number? Did you mean #707237, which was filed a day after > 707131? > Yes, I did. The duplicate bug is linked there as merged. And again – here we have a nice new and shiny *grave* bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711062 with nothing else than four lines of (mainly useless) console output. The BTS is not an user support forum for clueless users. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
