On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:48:30PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be > > addressed. Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if > > they're involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are > > supposed to be forwarded upstream (with a patch if one is available). > > That is part of the Debian philosophy. > > I estimate that I get notified of less than 5% of the bugs.
IIRC, Thomas Dickey is ncurses upstream maintainer... frankly, it has been practically orphaned for a long time, due to Galen Hazelwood's apparent AWOLness. And recently Espy offered it for adoption, again... that package really seems to be a `wild beast'. Anyway, wading through old bugs is a boring, difficult and overall completely uninteresting task. But it has to be done. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
