Hello, Eli. On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:24:14 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 9/24/24 8:34 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>> The context of this discussion was an implication that the Gentoo > >>> maintainers wouldn't make a change "that made everyone's systems > >>> suddenly break". I submitted a bug report about --depclean back in > >>> the summer of 2021 (though I can't find that bug any more). I think > >>> it was closed as not-a-bug.
> >> Whoever closed it was wrong, frankly. > > I've found the bug. It was 803878. The developer who responded treated > > my bug as though it were a request for personal support, and he > > completely evaded my point that it was a bug in portage which should be > > fixed. It was actually closed as TEST-REQUEST, whatever that means. The > > bug was never addressed. > The bug was confused about the issue at hand and lacking the full > explanation of why it's an issue it could be understood why it was > assumed to be a personal support request. Whenever I get a confused bug report, the first thing I do is work out what the problem really is, which often involves getting in touch with the OP. That didn't happen with 803878 - the response to my initial bug report occurred with 17 minutes of it being raised. > It is not a bug in portage, which is part of the confusion here. It is a > bug in virtual/service-manager. That is clear now, it wasn't clear in 2021-06 when the bug was raised. It is surely not the submitter's job to work out where in a system a bug is caused, rather it's the job of the specialist handling the bug. > I reopened the bug report, corrected the description, and assigned it. Thanks! That's appreciated. It's looking like it's now going to get fixed. :-) > https://bugs.gentoo.org/803878 > -- > Eli Schwartz -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
