On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:35:52PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > Let's file on general, wait a reasonable period of time, then start > > filing individual bugs with the certainty that noone will complain > > on us filing mass-bugs. > > A bug on 'general' will be fowarded to debian-devel anyway and I suspect > that the response won't be as favourable as could be. There will > probably be a lot of opposition anyway,
what opposition do you mean? the issue is clear: there's a bug in a number of packages that only affects GNU/Hurd and needs to be fixed. > but IMHO a normal posting to > -devel announcing the filings would be the better way. i read somewhere that a problem affecting a big number of packages should be filed into general or reported to -devel, and only filed to indivudual packages if the first option fails. but there aren't that many anyway: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=sbin%2Fmkfs&searchmode=searchfilesanddirs&version=unstable http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=sbin%2Ffsck&searchmode=searchfilesanddirs&version=unstable that is 6 plus other filesystem-related utils that are not mkfs/fsck perhaps we should file individual packages directly, without reporting? > Then again, I think solving this problem in another way is preferable. which way? the symlink option does need to modify individual packages too. -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
