@mpt: The problem isn't just that some devs chose to ignore a spec. It's also the fact that they told nobody about it; and other devs are forced to waste time discovering this fact.
Either follow the spec; or change the spec so people will know what to expect. Both variants are one-liner patches. It's an extremely simple fix, one way or another. For the love of God, it's been three and a half years. Can we please stop pretending that this isn't a problem and just apply either fix? [On a side note, yes, it is poor programming to ignore an API and to think one comment in one implementation makes it alright. Giving examples of other bad programming is not going to change that. Also, I see 143 people affected by this bug; all of them are most likely programmers who wanted to use timeout_expire. How many programmers are working on notifyOSD and Gnome Shell, combined? Who's in the minority, again?] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to notify-osd in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508 Title: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Message Web: New Status in Notify OSD: Won't Fix Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: libnotify-bin adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ apt-cache policy libnotify-bin libnotify-bin: Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ cat notify-send.c | grep expire_timeout static glong expire_timeout = NOTIFY_EXPIRES_DEFAULT; { "expire-time", 't', 0,G_OPTION_ARG_INT, &expire_timeout, notify_notification_set_timeout(notify, expire_timeout); adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/390508/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
