On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:57:25PM -0400, David Walluck wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Eaon wrote:
>
> > Have you tried looking here:
> > https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=2532 Or how about this
> > one: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=3638 I believe
> > these are the bugs you are talking about, correct? Or something pretty
> > close anyway. That they are in the bug tracking system seems to be
>
> These aren't specifically the bugs. For one thing, "does nothing" is
> hardly descriptive enough to be helpful (Note: I am not saying I am not
> guilty of this from time to time myself). Also, one of them refers to 8.0
> (where rpmdrake worked fine for me). The other says 8.0 beta 1. Again,
> this is Cooker, so every time a release is made the bug might change.
>
> > ;-) ). He's just a guy, with his own way of doing things, just like any
> > one of us. I think that once a few people have discussed it on the list and
> > decided that it is indeed a software bug and not some silly
> > configuration/corrupt config file/whatever kind of issue, then the next
> > logical step is to put it in bugzilla, and wait for the fix without
> > complaining about it more to the list. That's what archives of the list and
>
> I may also have not been reading the list (e.g. I missed that someone had
> reported it before), but it seems that this person who posted (to whom I
> replied) did not check to see if it had already been reported. I was not
> complaining to Odin, so much as I was frusturated from seeing the same
> bug report countless times over the past few days. I realize things take
> time to be fixed. I also realize that other people may not notice a bug
> has already been brought up. My only problem was when it gets reported
> multiple times by multiple people (including myself), then it seems to be
> getting a little out of hand.
>
> If Odin had said first time this came up that "This is a bug I'm looking
> into it." Then we'd have reason to blame for multiple posts. If someone
> had checked the list and at least said "Ok, looks like someone else has
> that bug too and already mailed the list". Here, too, we'd have someone to
> we'd have reason to blame.
>
This is a bug I'm looking into it. ;-)
I can reproduce it. I don't understand it now, though.
Oh, by the way, I totally agree that a bug report without the rpmdrake
version/release is somewhat useless to me.
DindinX
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