Hi Zack, On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 03:41:57PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > reopen 863914 > thanks > > This feature request has not been discussed since 2017, but it is still > a live issue for people working on glibc and similar low-level > projects, and the package maintainer acknowledged that he needed no > further information to begin work. If there is no plan to work on this > in the near future, so be it, but the bug should be left open until the > work is done. > > In general, closing bugs for inactivity alone is bad practice. Please stop > doing that.
In this case you might want to contribute a solution in form of a proposed merge request to the packaging? That would be welcome so that for instance Ben might review what you are proposing. Thank you. Regards, Salvatore p.s.: FWIW, no keeping a huge amount of bugs open is unhealthy for the team, and if there is no action on bugs not worthwile to take action on it is good to close those. Prevously the team had more than tousend open bugs, which made impossible to stay on track on issues. I acknowledge that we have different views on it and for you your issue is important. But then we need to see help implementing it (and if it needs work upstream first, get the change accepted upstream first).
