Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mai 14, 13:43:31, Ian Jackson wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes (Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)): Last time someone (Bcc'd) tried to tackle these (admittedly without contacting the maintainer in advance) the contributor was prevented

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: For this concrete case, might I suggest following course of action: 1. ping all submitters of emacs21 (and related) bugs to test against recent emacs (at a minimum emacs23 from wheezy) and deal with the bug as needed 2. if no response within

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 15/05/2014 17:06, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: For this concrete case, might I suggest following course of action: 1. ping all submitters of emacs21 (and related) bugs to test against recent emacs (at a minimum emacs23 from wheezy) and deal with

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr writes: Completely at random, I tested this one: • #128748 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: M-x word-count (from xemacs) is missing? It happens that this one is solved in emacs24, not in emacs23. What should be done: reassign to emacs23 (which

Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrei POPESCU writes (Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]): On Jo, 15 mai 14, 13:43:31, Ian Jackson wrote: One of my bugs was involved in this situation and I was one of the people (the person?) who objected. I contacted the maintainer who

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 18:48 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] For example, one of the oldest open emacs bugs is my own bug #9741 from May 1997. It should clearly remain open. [...] That is your opinion. Really, it is up to the maintainer(s) whether they leave a bug open (or tag it 'wontfix')