Jari Aalto wrote: > | Did you discuss your mass bug filing in [EMAIL PROTECTED], like you're > | supposed to? If so, please refer me to the discussion. > > I wasn't aware of that list.
([EMAIL PROTECTED] is an abbreviation for [email protected]) Good thing I mentioned it, then. Individual bug reports are fine, but all mass bugs (ie. bugs that exist essentially identically in many packages) should be discussed first on the [email protected] mailing list, so that a generally agreed upon solution can be found in a coordinated fashion. When you report lots of individual bugs in different packages, there is no coordination, and individual maintainers (often unaware that the bug was mass-filed!) make their own decisions, which vary from maintainer to maintainer. It also allows fixing any bugs in the bug report itself (and there were several in this one). I suggest you stop reporting these bugs right now, and then start that discussion, and mail to all the bugs you've already opened a reference to your -devel message, so that this issue can be coordinated. I will not argue the merits of this report in isolation. (More on proper behaviour of developers in Debian: http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/; Section 7.1.1 covers this particular issue.) > I was under impression that the > recommended wasy is to have all in their own directories. I assumed > that nobody had previously taken this issue on these packages > I posted. Did you find any documentation that supported this impression? If so, you should have referred to that documentation in your initial bug report. If not, it should have made you think if your impression was correct after all. > If it would be techically possible to move the configuration files in > dctrl under /etc/<package>/ please reconsiders. However if this > affects other tools that may depend on its location, then I understand. It is technically possible, but it is easy to get wrong. I rather not introduce such a bug nest without a very good reason. -- Antti-Juhani
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