i've thought for a long time about how to reply to your message. which, now that i re-read it, i notice that it is extremely patronising, and all possible thought of being nice and non-confrontational goes out the xxxxing window.
given that you are happy to write patronising messages, i am not therefore too surprised at your statement. i therefore invite you to accept reality. the reality is: there are too many people using debian who have found "reportbug" and use it for you to whine about how the world "does not revolve around debian". the mozilla team accept the reality that bugs are going to come in from several sources. why the xxxx can't you? get with it, get off your damn high horse, and accept that intelligent and stupid people alike are going to report bugs - not to suit _your_ whims but because the reporting method is _there_ and they haven't been told any different. if you _want_ people to stop using the debian system, then here are your options, in no particular order: 1) write a program to sabotage bugs.debian.org or a subsection of it. 2) write a program that slurps bugs of certain debian package names and duplicates the contents in the kde bugs. 3) write a program that monitors the bugs of certain debian package names and sends a message to each notifying them of your fucking dipshit disposition that "this bug will be totally ignored because i am so up my own arse i cannot be bothered to read it unless you post it on _my_ system". 4) put in a bugreport against the debian "reportbug" package about this entire issue you find so objectionable 5) write a patch to reportbug to have an "exclusionary list" or an "advisory / warning" saying that the debian bug reporting for any kde package is _specifically_ for reporting debian packaging problems _not_ for reporting bugs on kde, and pllllleeeeasse pretty please could you go go _ourr_ nice bug-reporting system 6) stick your head in a bucket of cold water and CHILL OUT (i'll be doing likewise in a couple of minutes, just as i get to about no 8 or so on this list of suggestions) 7) develop an RSS/XML-lovely-intercommuney-system of bug-communicationey-stuff protocol "thing" that allows free software bugs to be "pushed" across to different interoperable systems. i strongly advise you to consider looking up AS/2 which is an RFC on how to communicate XML documents and also to have a digitally signed "receipt" indicating acceptance of the transfer. perhaps that's a bit overkill, but worth considering. the basic principle: allow bugs to be searched across multiple systems (not just your own system); allow a bug to be transferred by the thingies. bug maintainer people. for them with one easy push-of-a-browser-button say "here. _you_ deal with it". ahh, why didnt' _you_ think of some of these ideas, instead of just bitching about how debian and its users are so XXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX we interrupt this email to bring you some light refridgerator i mean elevator music. ahh, i feel better now. calm, calm. i am at onnnne with the universe. i am bleeennnnded in. On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:06:54AM +0100, Dirk Mueller wrote: > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:52, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > was the issue mentioned in this report ever resolved? > > I'm not sure why I have to state the obvious, but the world does not rotate > around Debian, and unless you report the bug at an upstream place where the > actual maintainer can read about it, its unlikely that bugs get fixed in a > magically automated way. > > > -- > Dirk//\ -- -- <a href="http://lkcl.net">http://lkcl.net</a> -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]