I was not suggesting any changes. I was merely pointing out what I would find the best behaviour from a bot. Others may disagree, or dispute the degree of annoyance to the 'user'
-Joseph On 15 February 2012 12:11, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Petch <[email protected]> writes: > >> If I were Russ, I wouldn't be bothering with a very low priority 5 like >> this. > > I'm happy to pass your answer back to the bug reporter and close out the > bug. I suspected something along those lines would be the answer, but > didn't want to put words in your mouth. > >> If someone want stop code it they can waste their time. I think Russ and >> Ubuntu folks should fix the big gaping Priority one catastrophic bug >> that really should have GNUBG pulled from that platform until >> fixed. That bug is the one that causes the mouse to freeze on that >> platform (Ubuntu 11.04+). > >> Right now, the bug in question is so catastrophic that it renders our >> product useless on Ubuntu if someone wants to view the analysis from the >> move list. > >> The bug doesn't exist on the current main Debian Wheezy or Sid releases. > >> If it were me, I would pull GNUBG from Ubuntu until it is resolved. > > I'm not entirely sure who this is aimed at. So far as I know, no one > involved in this thread has anything to do with Ubuntu. I certainly > don't. I package GNUBG for Debian, where so far as I can tell it works > fine. > > Ubuntu imports my Debian packages into Ubuntu, but it's not like they > asked whether they could do that. They just do that routinely with all > Debian packages. Not that I mind, at all, but I don't feel any particular > ownership over their behavior on Ubuntu; that wasn't anything I ever > signed on to support. I'll fix bugs when I can, because it's free > software and all, but I have no Ubuntu systems and have no particular > interest in running Ubuntu. > > I do keep an eye on the Ubuntu bug stream for the gnubg packages in case > any of those issues affect Debian, but I don't feel any ownership of their > bug handling process or any particular obligation to try to convince them > they've imported buggy packages and shouldn't be including them. When I > have available time to do QA, I expend those resources on Debian, since > that's the project I'm actually part of. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
