On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Emil wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know how can you give a negative vote for a maintainer > who neglects serious bugs in the packages he's supposed to look after. > > Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> ignores a serious bug > #641873 in package xpdf for the last 3 months. xpdf is the only > linux lean and fast alternative PDF viewer and it is broken in Debian. > The bug is only present with the debian patches so he's the only person > who can fix this. > > The same xpdf package also has bug #640515 also 3 months old - xpdf > segfaults when printing. > > I wonder why is the xpdf package included in this shape in Debian at all > if you can't view text and can't print. > > Other exaples of unsolved bugs: #622877 from 15 April 2011 (xpdf can't > print landscape documents); this one is from the time you could still > print in xpdf. > > So I would like to know what is the process to vote out a maintainer > if he doesn't step aside and lets someone who is interested in > maintaining his own packages.
I'm really at a loss for words here. I'll just say that the xpdf testing package is currently 100% RC bug-free [0], and that's the one that matters. Unstable is, well, unstable, yikes! I've done my due diligence by intentionally blocking those issues from contaminating my testing package. At present, I have limited time for xpdf, although at some point, yes, I will need to sit down and make the time. Until then, the testing package is working just fine; please be patient. I'm also more than willing to accept any and all help from interested contributors such as yourself. These are issues ripe for playing around with in a debugger; for those that enjoy that type of thing. Oh, and besides that, there are 1,000 other RC bugs to worry about right now; most of them actually affecting testing ;) Why is xpdf so special? Best wishes, Mike [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xpdf;dist=testing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANTw=mo48g75m-w3ndatw3t16roeb+jxqjkqnc1vcsullmg...@mail.gmail.com
