James Troup wrote:
Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
First it would have been nice to expose your opposition before, that
would have let us 50+ days to dig into the problem.
Well, it'd be nice if I had a pony too, but I don't.
Saying "it works on Ubuntu" is not a right answer.
I didn't say it was the answer.
Debian and Ubuntu are different, some choices are not the same, and
it is precisely the case for bi-arch on amd64, where the location of
the bi-arch libraries is totally different.
ITYM, "totally retarded in Debian's case", but I'll not quibble.
I don't have an Ubuntu machine so I can't do more work in that
direction. It seems it is the case for you, so I let you propose
another fix for this problem.
Dude, that's not how this works. You want to make a change that
deviates us from upstream, that means you get to justify the chane in
a manner that's sufficient that I can both understand it and feel
confident in proposing it upstream.
That's why I don't understand why you don't want the same for i386
on amd64.
I didn't say I didn't want it, I said I wanted it explained.
And don't do that either. NMUs are not an excuse to get random pet
bug fixes in.
It's not a random pet bug. It's a porting bug that has been opened for
more than a year without any answer.
I may not have answered it, but I was tracking it's progress upstream,
and it's worth noting that the patch as originally posted was rejected
there...
Well this patch has been merged upstream in November 2005, and has been
fixed in Debian when the new upstream version has been packaged.
The only missing part is Debian specific, so you can wait a lot of time
before it is fixed upstream.
If anyone had asked the status of the bug, that's what I would have
told them.
I was wanting to do a porter NMU for amd64 and kfreebsd-i386.
Sorry, but "porter NMU" doesn't give you free reign to ignore the
maintainer.
That's exactly why I warned you before doing the NMU.
I would add that being a maintainer doesn't give you free reign to
ignore the bug reporter.
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