"Stefan van der Eijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In such cases, please note that the best would be to send an > > email to the maintainer (or open a bugzilla bug) so that we be > > aware of the problem and possibly fix.. > > hmmm... hey... that could be my full-time job!
:) > example: these packages currently don't rebuild due to a "unpackaged files > found" problem: > > http://eijk.homelinux.org/build/cooker/i586/unpackaged_files/ > > how to handle this? > 1/ fill in individual bug reports for each package? > 2/ wait untill the packagers bump into them (one by one)? > 3/ announce on cooker? > 4/ fix it yourself an upload (if you can)! there are special cases such as "unpackaged files", where there is a brutal new rule which breaks half of the distro -> no use filing bugreports as maintainers are aware of that; if they don't fix at once it's because either they feel it's not so important or they simple don't have enough time in the short term.. of course for ppl who can upload, the best is to fix & upload. for the rest of errors, it depends on ppl: I do prefer receiving an email, fcrozat is known to prefer bugzilla.. though bugzilla is much ameliorating in its mail interface, so personally now I think it's a good tool to use for such a case. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
