Hi Julian,
I forgot to say in my last reply: I thought you were not around, so I
had already prepared an NMU for upload to the DELAYED/10-days queue,
with the changes committed to your collab-maint repository:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/app-install-data.git
and was getting ready to write to you about it. :-)
Anyhow, looking back the history of this bug report and the two other
reports that were merged, I will say this:
You should have patched spout.desktop way back in March 2013 rather
than waiting till after the Wheezy release, and then kind of
forgetting about it.
Yes, it was the Wheezy Freeze, but it was the perfect time for
resolving this kind of bug, because you would have fixed a rather
nasty problem that multiple users ran into. You weren't introducing
any new feature to the package even if you were to fetch the newer
spout.desktop from experimental, so it was a perfectly acceptable fix
to get into Wheezy even during the freeze.
Well, how time flies, and the Jessie Freeze is upon us, and yet this
problem was left unresolved, and still biting unsuspecting end users
to this day. This time around, you tell us that you never intended to
keep app-install-data around, and requests its removal from unstable
(sid), i.e. it would finally be gone from Debian 9.0. But what about
Debian 8.0?
You see, this is equivalent of saying, "Oh, I will have it fixed for
the NEXT release," but seems to have forgotten that "Users of Stable
Release" also suffer from this bug! Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) users who
have unluckily installed both "app-install-data" and
"apt-xapian-index" have already suffered from this bug, and if we
don't get the bug fixed specifically for Jessie, Debian 8.0 (Wheezy)
users will suffer the same bug too!
Please be mindful that:
* Not all end users are technies like us.
Many wouldn't have a clue what to do when they see a bug like this,
and they need our help to squash the bug!
* While it is good that you always look to the "future",
please do not forget the "present" and the "past"!
Our "testing" and "stable" users are suffering from the same bug,
and they need our help too!
* If it is a bug, especially when multiple people
have complained about it, get it fixed ASAP,
even during the freeze, because that is what the freeze is for!
"Freeze" does *not* mean "do nothing until the freeze is over"!
Thanks!
Anthony
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