[please cc: replies to me, i'm not on -policy list] [although i don't know why this isn't on -devel instead]
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:57:54PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > > close 9362 > > Bug#9362: gopherd: missing /etc/gopherd.conf > > Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why ! > etc. > > [As an aside, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than control's > "close" command, so that submitters receive an explanation] Okay, but it is fairly obvious why that kind of bug is closed. > A large fraction of the "Maintainer Unknown" bug reports > (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/l-28_unknown-29_.html) are about packages > that are no longer in Debian. I'm not sure there is concensus about closing > them. > > I go over the list once in a while to assign bugs to existing packages where > applicable, but haven't close bugs for dead packages. > > Closing them appeals to my sense of tidyness, but keeping them open makes > them available for future maintainers to pick up. > > I'd like to see discussion on whether or not to keep them open. Opinions? I didn't (at least I hope I didn't) close any bugs for packages that are still in the project/orphaned directory, only for those that I couldn't find any trace of. I presumed that they were once included in Debian, but since then long orphaned (and the date of the bug says a lot). There was one exception, a package that had two files in project/orphaned, but not the complete source (I think it was the upstream source archive that was missing). I closed that bug, too, since the chances we find the source are minimal, even if someone would like to repackage the program. I also think that we should first resolve more important BTS problems, like finding a good way to import non-US packages' maintainers entries into the BTS. That information is not in any way subject to crypto/patent laws, so only thing that needs to be done is a few lines of code that would merge the two databases. I don't know whether this has been reported as a bug against bugs.debian.org pseudo package, it should be. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
