On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:35 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it really true that bug reports _must_ be handled? And if downstream > projects like Debian and Gentoo provide patches, what's wrong with merging > them?
They don't necessarily have to be fixed. There just needs to be someone willing to accept responsibility for them, so that the global maintainers can say "it's not my problem; it's his/her problem". After all, I haven't done much IA-64 work over the last few years, and only fixed a few token problems, but that was good enough that everyone could point at me and say it was my problem if something broke. Fortunately, backends rarely are responsible for breaking other things, so in practice this isn't much work. Jim
