On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > No, it's not fine to close a bug without doing anything at all to fix it. > > It's the duty of the maintainer to reproduce the bug, > > > > You are not going to tell me what I need to do. I am not paid to do this, I > try to do my best in my free time and I have several hundreds of bugs to take > care of. If you are not happy with this I am not going to cry, I can leave > with it. If you think it is so easy to fix the bug, just go ahead and write a > patch instead of complaining like this and not bringing any single piece of > help.
Please calm down and don't put things in my mouth which I never said. I never said it would be easy to fix this bug. I just believe it would be easy to *reproduce* (but I can be wrong, of course). Bear in mind that I am not paid to report bugs either, or to fix bugs in my own packages, and I also have a lot of bugs to fix. I just think we should only close a bug after checking that it's fixed, that's all. > Given how you consider my work, it is clear that I am not going to > spend a lot of my time for your bug report. That's ok, as everybody decides what to do in his free time, and I was not asking you to fix the bug, only to leave it open until it's fixed. > We have a lot of people > with a completely broken X server and they are still nice with me > when I ask them to test a lot of things. Obviously, trying to help > them is much more interesting than trying to explain you how you > deal with bug reports (which obviously you don't know at all). Sorry, I don't understand the word "obviously" here. A bug is normally closed when it's fixed, not before. If we (Debian) can't agree on such elementary principle, we have a problem (maybe not bigger than a broken X server, agreed, but an important one). In either case, please go ahead and prioritize your tasks as you see they fit. I'll try to do the same. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]