Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> MH> Considering that the maintainer scripts have not been inherited > MH> from mozilla, and that the mozilla engine is pretty different, > MH> may I just close all the bugs assigned to old mozilla packages, > MH> requesting a reopen if the bug still exists in iceape ? > Looks like CADT: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html Yeah, it is, but, well, there's a good reason why people do that. jwz is mostly complaining about the software being repeatedly rewritten and only secondarily about the resulting mass-closing of bug reports. Once the software is rewritten, it really is quite hard to revalidate a lot of bugs; the real solution is to slowly evolve software rather than rewrite it completely. Anyway, the problem we have in Debian is that the rewrite happened upstream of us and wasn't our choice but we now have to deal with our resulting backlog of bugs. My guess is that leaving the bugs open is actually going to be of less service to the users than a mass-close after prompting them to recheck the bugs, since the chances of anyone going through them is rather slim. However, one way to prevent a simple mass-close of the bugs would be to volunteer to triage them all! If someone feels strongly that they deserve attention and wants to go through and recheck them, I bet the Iceweasel maintainers wouldn't complain. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
