On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Darren Benham was heard to say: > What do you think? > ----- Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > > On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote: > > | And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian > keyring.. > > Non-developpers should not be allowed to *manipulate* bugs IMO. > > > > ----- End forwarded message -----
As a non-developer who has manipulated bugs.. I think that non-developers should be allowed to manipulate bugs that they are the submittors of. Several times now I've submitted bugs that either became outdated by a new release or turned out to be my own fault (eg, I reported a bug against lftp that was caused because a local install in /usr/local/bin which I had forgotten about was overriding my packaged installation in /usr/bin) but nevertheless was not closed -- in such cases, I generally send a message to (bug-num)@bugs.debian.org saying that the bug is not a bug anymore and should be closed. However, in a few cases I never got a response from the maintainer and decided to just close a bug myself. I think that I may once have reopened a bug that I reported when it was prematurely closed (that is, the maintainer closed it but I could still reproduce the problem in the supposedly fixed version), in preference to submitting a new bug report. I'm not sure about that, though. I may have just considered it. Are these shooting offenses? If so, I guess I should start keeping an eye out for the Debian Hit Squad.. :-/ Daniel -- Man is timid; he no longer says 'I think' or 'I am' but quotes some prophet or sage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"