Re: Consensus on closing old bugs

2023-02-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 10:07 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > It's even appropriate to ask if the bug still happens. I'd like to see people asking that to put a slight amount of effort into reproducing the bug, especially if there are documented or obvious steps towards that. I recently encountered a m

Re: Consensus on closing old bugs

2023-02-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Tomas" == Tomas Pospisek writes: Tomas> All that said, I have never received negative feedback to Tomas> these bug triages that I am occassionaly doing and am under Tomas> the impression that the maintainers *do* appreciate someone Tomas> going over their packages bugs from

Re: Consensus on closing old bugs

2023-02-06 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 06.02.23 11:51, Santiago Vila wrote: El 6/2/23 a las 11:26, Brian Thompson escribió: I understand that the usual way to close out bug reports is having the original author do it themselves.  What's the policy on closing bug reports that haven't had activity in over 6 months? Let the maint

Bug#1030686: ITP: libwebservice-lucene-perl -- Module to interface with the Lucene indexing webservice

2023-02-06 Thread mtj
Package: wnpp Owner: Mason James Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libwebservice-lucene-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Brian Cassidy * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/WebService-Lucen

Bug#1030685: ITP: make-dynpart-mappings -- CLI tool to setup DM mappings for Android dynamic partitions

2023-02-06 Thread Arnaud Ferraris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Ferraris X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, aferra...@debian.org * Package name: make-dynpart-mappings Version : 10.2.4 Upstream Contact: Richard Acayan * URL : https://gitlab.com/flamingradian/make-dynpart-mapp

Bug#1030679: ITP: liblocale-maketext-extract-dbi-perl -- extract translation keys from a database

2023-02-06 Thread mtj
Package: wnpp Owner: Mason James Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblocale-maketext-extract-dbi-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Brian Cassidy * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Locale

Re: Consensus on closing old bugs

2023-02-06 Thread Brian Thompson
On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 11:51 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Let the maintainers handle their bugs. > Old bugs should not be closed just because they are "old". > > For example, I have an open bug which is 26 years old: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5898 > > and I don't see

Re: Consensus on closing old bugs

2023-02-06 Thread Santiago Vila
El 6/2/23 a las 11:26, Brian Thompson escribió: I understand that the usual way to close out bug reports is having the original author do it themselves. What's the policy on closing bug reports that haven't had activity in over 6 months? Let the maintainers handle their bugs. Old bugs should n

Bug#1030668: dinstall could run more often (every hour?)

2023-02-06 Thread Gioele Barabucci
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Dear FTP masters, could dinstall be run more frequently, for example every hour? Currently dinstall is run only once every 6 hours. This means that many operations are blocked for a long time. For instance u

Consensus on closing old bugs

2023-02-06 Thread Brian Thompson
I understand that the usual way to close out bug reports is having the original author do it themselves. What's the policy on closing bug reports that haven't had activity in over 6 months? Specifically I am talking about the following: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007922