Hello Egmont, On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > During these 2 years no valuable comments arrived from any Debian/Dpkg > developers. I wonder why... Isn't there anyone caring about this bug? (Is > there anyone caring about Dpkg at all?) Or you simply lack developer > resources? (Well, that could be an excuse for an unreproducible bug report > or a bug report without a patch, but I feel I've done everything anyone > could have done to locate and fix this bug; all you have to do is verify it > and then apply the patch.)
We clearly lack developers resources and the number of bugs accumulated on dpkg is so high, that's it's difficult to keep track of them. Guillem or Ian, can you look at the patches? The first one seems ok and the second one may need some adjustement depending on the value of "instdir" I guess... I haven't looked in details the values that it can have. If it's either "empty" or the chroot, then it's fine, otherwise it might need adjustment. > If you check the bug archives of Debian, you'll see that I already posted > several bug reports and patches (well, not very much, maybe a dozen) and > some of them were successfully applied, making Debian a slightly better > distro. Unfortunately this is not my first bugreport where I have to wait > years for anyone to move his fingers. If you continue developing with this > approach, all you'll reach is that I'm going to fix these bugs for myself > and not send any feedback at all. It's not worth it for me to spend my time > explaining the story if noone's listening to me. Is this what you want? I > hope not... Please continue sending your patch and bug reports, even if they're not treated quickly, it's important to have them recorded. Hopefully one day we'll get more volunteers. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
