Control: reopen -1

2014-06-26 22:45 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <[email protected]>:
> Am 26.06.2014 23:34, schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>> 2014-06-26 22:05 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <[email protected]>:
>>> Am 26.06.2014 22:51, schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:
>>>> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>>>> which was filed against the razorqt-power package:
>>>>
>>>> #752442: razorqt-power: upower-1.0 transition
>>>>
>>>> It has been closed by "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" 
>>>> <[email protected]>.
>>>>
>>>> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
>>>> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
>>>> better one in a separate message then please contact "Manuel A. Fernandez 
>>>> Montecelo" <[email protected]> by
>>>> replying to this email.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply Manuel.
>>>
>>> If you aren't sure if razorqt-power is actually affected by the upower
>>> 0.99 update, please don't just close it.
>>>
>>> It's not like the transition can only start if all bugs have been
>>> closed. Those bugs are there to actually track progress with affected
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> I had a quick look at  razorqt-power/*.cpp and it *does* use the
>>> suspend/hibernate functionality from upower, which no longer exists in
>>> upower 0.99.
>>>
>>> In the end it's your choice as maintainer, but closing the bug report
>>> seems wrong to me.
>>
>> I'm hesitant.  For me it would be ok-ish to keep it open, but
>> realistically I don't see myself investigating and patching it to keep
>> it entering the next release.
>>
>> I've even been pondering doing the contrary: submitting a RC bug to
>> keep it removed from testing, or creating kind of transitional
>> packages to move people to LXDE-qt versions once they are present
>> (however, this is a quite hairy process, I think).
>>
>> razorqt-session has popcon of 228, which is not too bad, given that
>> it's not been in an stable release (when LXDE-Qt is available, maybe
>> people migrate "en masse" though).
>>
>> But then again, I don't think that it is sensible to spend too much
>> time in the package, abandoned upstream as it is, not present in any
>> stable release (thus: only used by "adventurers" who should know their
>> ways around; and no need for formal migrations), and with better
>> alternative projects being packaged soon (ITP bugs).
>>
>
> If you don't think razorqt-power is ready for release, re-open the bug,
> bump it to serious.
>
> It will then automatically be removed from testing.
>
> If you get around to it to actually fix the upower 0.99 integration, you
> can close the bug and the package will re-enter testing.
>
> If on the other hand, say in a year or so, no further development has
> happened, you can re-assign this bug to ftp.debian.org and ask for the
> complete removal of the package.
>
> In any case, it makes sense to re-open the bug report.


OK, reopened, thanks.


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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>


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