-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:29:56PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote: > Do not want to start a flame. My gratitude towards the Debian mantainers is > enormous but from times to times you stumble on that particular package you > really need, that is broken, on which bug reports are filed months ago, no > feedback given and when you try to add some more information either get no > feedback or get some nervous reply often stating the problem is upstream (in > last case I checked and it seems to be not true). As a proof this is not a > personal argument no names or hints made here ! 8->>
The devel should be contacting upstream, then...this is a pet peeve of mine. > When all of the above is true is there a way what is the way of the Debian > project to handle these cases (i.e. finding a new mantainer without consent > of the current) ?? This was discussed in this week's Debian Weekly News. Had you been subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], you would have received it in your email. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/ - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jSvbUzgNqloQMwcRAnMFAJ9MSBKtQPYcArnP37jVhJIFt0NhlQCgias9 5qlDtUOXBCOJEIgKeQBCYWs= =FUJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
