On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:43:25PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: > some days ago someone filed an obviously bogus bug against a package > I'm co-maintaining (nautilus-media, bug #197352), i.e. he complained > about being unable to install the gnome-core metapackage on hppa > because nautilus-media on which gnome-core depends is unavailable on > that arch.
What you do is dependent on the maintainer and their philosophy. > But still, one Debian user felt the urge to file a "critical" bug > against nautilus-media, justification: "breaks other packages". This > is of course nonsense. nautilus-media does not break anything, it is > just not there, yet -- without any fault of its own. That's a misuse of "breaks other packages". For starters there is dependencies, so that generally rules out using that justification. Secondly as you say installing nautilus-media doesn't break gnome-core. > What is the generally accepted way within the "Debian culture" to deal > with such reports? Do I close the bug right away? Do I downgrade it? > Do I reassign it (in this case to gstreamer)? I'd close it. At the very worse tag it wontfix and set it to normal. But its not a real bug and should be closed. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
