On 13 Sep 2003 16:30:11 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:29, csj wrote: > > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, > > > 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 it is such a trivial hack to fix it, why didn't you submit > the fix to the debian bug tracking system and to the upstream > project maintainers (if you think it's a problem with the > project rather than the specific debian package)?
I was speaking rhetorically. But I did suggest a fix. Alas I don't know anything other than #!sh. I was thinking the problem was trivial because it involved an "auto-detection" feature that could be implemented using command-line utilities like "sed" and "grep". And it's the only program of its kind, among the half-dozen I have installed, that exhibits such a "bug." > Did you even bother to file the bug(s) upstream? I was informed that the maintainer was a part of upstream. > You probably assumed that the debian package maintainer would > have forwarded it to the upstream project maintainer, but those > forwarded bug are very unlikely to be fixed, since it adds a > redirection to the project maintainers ability to get more > information about a bug. Well, I thought it might also be a packaging bug. IRC the app's Redhat-packaged version appeared to work all right. Maybe it's a problem with the quirks (relative to Redhat) of the Debian filesystem or whatnot that I can't get the app to run without a minor tweak. (Note: assume that this whole discussion is hypothetical. This has absolutely nothing to do with bug #162308.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
