On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:29:42AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, > Colin Watson wrote: > > That's entirely up to the maintainer of the package and/or any > > other random people who happen to look at it. Forget policy > > here, it's a matter of people having time and interest to do > > the work. If you give more details about the bug in question > > then perhaps somebody could be encouraged to look at it. (Bug > > #162308?) > > Is it that much work to, as Osamu Aoki said, change the priority > or downgrade the bug? Then I'd know how I stand WRT package. I > know its limits, especially when the author or maintainer rants > "Yyyou moron, that's a feature not a bug!" I might still > continuing recommending the package, but I'd qualify the > recommendation with "You need to do this [trivial hack] before > you get it to work".
If we're talking about #162308, then the maintainer *did* downgrade the severity ... (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=162308&msg=4) Actually, it can often be rather a lot of work in the aggregate on packages with lots of bugs, although that may not be the case in this particular instance. I've been co-maintaining openssh for nearly a year now, looking at tens of bugs a day some weekends, and it's still got 173 unique open bugs. While responding to any individual bug doesn't take very long, responding to hundreds can take a significant slice of one's life, especially if they take some investigation. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
