Felix Dietrich <felix.dietr...@sperrhaken.name> writes: > What is the etiquette dealing with seemingly forgotten bug reports?
You should start with a message to the bug report email address. That will reach both the current owner of the report, and the package maintainer address. > […] to have another look at the report and decide for an appropriate > action; may I close the report myself or set e.g. the "wontfix" tag; > something else? Closing the report should be done only if that is clearly the conclusion. As a newcomer you should not do that except where there is a clear statement that the report has nothing further to be done. Same with setting a “wontfix” tag; that is an expression of the maintainer's position, and so it needs to be clearly expressed by the maintainers. You can begin with just a “What's the latest on dealing with this report?” message. More often that you might expect, that prompts someone to give an update on new information that never made its way to the bug report. -- \ “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world | `\ would also change.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi, _Collected Works_, 1913 | _o__) | Ben Finney
