On 27 Apr 2001, Christian Marillat wrote: > *You* are a serious problem.
> If you don't want to change your configuration each time you did a apt-get > upgrade, then install potato. > testing/unstable is for real men (tm). In that case, perhaps these packages should be removed from testing. The purpose of testing is to prepare these packages for release as a stable distribution. If you're not interested in providing a clean upgrade path from potato and fixing bugs that *will cause problems* for users who upgrade, then there's no sense in continuing the charade. The community expects Debian to be more than a collection of software packages; they expect Debian to be a well-integrated operating *system*. Whether or not you feel it's your responsibility to fix the problem, denying that the problem exists is not going to help our users. > TB> When he said "I can do nothing" he closed the bug. I replied "yes you > TB> can do something" and reopened it, and he elected to mark it wontfix. > TB> Now, wontfix is for specific reasons, and "I don't want to bother > TB> forwarding the bug upstream" is just not an adequate reason. > This is my last post about this flamewar. > Maybe I'll reply to constructive post. If you don't reply, I hope you at least think about how your decisions could affect the perception of Debian as a whole. GNOME is a very widely-used destkop system; if this bug is present when woody is released, a lot of people are going to see it. Do you think they'll blame the upstream, or do you think they'll blame us? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer