On Sunday 28 September 2003 09:39, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Michael Reinsch wrote:
> > - some packages have a maintainer who is not really the maintainer of
> > this package (i.e. most changes are done by someone else), so a bug
> > report isn't assigned to the correct person.
>
> And sometimes they make gratuitous changes to the spec file without even
> testing that the package works after the modification (hint: a package
> that builds isn't equal to a package that builds *correctly* and works).
>
> Bye
Oh how true that is. I had hell last time trying to build optimized 9.1 rpms
for my athlon. Some of the spec files needed modifications which weren't
added which a rookie would be clueless about. thank god for #mandrake (and
here too kinda)
