Hi again Christian, Thanks again for your cooperation!
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> wrote: > tags 632746 fixed-upstream > thanks > Great! > Quoting Steve White ([email protected]): >> >> >> P.S. Debian is a terrible place to post bug reports about packages >> Debian doesn't produce. >> They do not report the bugs to the producers. It is like tossing >> pennies into a well. >> Please post further bugs to FreeFont >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=freefont > > > Please don't make blind assumptions about "Debian" in general. The > task of forwarding bugs to various upstreams is among the duty of > package maintainers. It sometimes happens that some of us fail to do > so (after all,we're all volunteers and several of us maintain dozens > of packages). But please don't discourage users to report bugs. > Under the current conditions, I cannot recommend reporting package bugs to Debian or Ubuntu. The system is broken, it has been broken, it will remain broken for some time. I have seen nothing but failure to deal with the bugs regarding the software I maintain. Lately it has been 100%. Moreover it has lately come to my attention that this is a matter of considerable strife between Debian and Ubuntu. This is a big problem and it is real. I am communicating with some people regarding ways to improve the situation. But until this is resolved, my recommendation to reporters is: try to find the authors or maintainers of the software, and report to them. > It seems that ttf-freefont bugs were not efficiently forwarded to > you. We take the blame for that and will try to improve this in the > future. > I appreciate the gesture. For my part, I apologize for my display. That said, trying to do better is not a solution to this problem. We need a systemic solution for a systemic problem. > However, please don't spread wrong assumptions about "they do > not report bugs to the producers". May I suggest you to have a look at > bug reports for the "samba" package for instance, in order to correct > this false perception of the work of Debian developers? And I of > course have thousands of similar examples among Debian source > packages. > I gratefully acknowledge the diligent work of many individual Debian developers and packagers. I am using a derivative of Debian myself, right now, it is so good. Cheers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
