On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:04:52PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > >>>> "CW" == Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > CW> Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Programs shouldn't gratuitously break configurations which worked. > >> When woody is released, and people upgrade en masse to it, they will > >> want their configurations to carry on working. > > CW> In my experience, GNOME has had this problem since version 1.0; almost > CW> every time I've upgraded, something has broken. Most of the time I've > CW> just given up and nuked ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome-private, and then > CW> recreated my desktop configuration. > > CW> It doesn't seem very reasonable to expect the Debian packagers to try > CW> to fix upstream bugs like this. > > Ha, somebody understand me :)
In which case, it's perfectly reasonable to just leave the bug open and not fix it. But don't close it. And do forward it upstream. Jules