Dear all, some days ago someone filed an obviously bogus bug against a package I'm co-maintaining (nautilus-media, bug #197352), i.e. he complained about being unable to install the gnome-core metapackage on hppa because nautilus-media on which gnome-core depends is unavailable on that arch.
The reason is that the build-depends cannot be satisfied, as gstreamer continues to FTBFS on hppa and a number of other arches. This is quite obviously not the fault of my innocent little package. But still, one Debian user felt the urge to file a "critical" bug against nautilus-media, justification: "breaks other packages". This is of course nonsense. nautilus-media does not break anything, it is just not there, yet -- without any fault of its own. Now, what can I do with such a bug? In bugzilla, one could simply tag it as "RESOLVED, INVALID" to leave a marker that the report itself was the bug. What is the generally accepted way within the "Debian culture" to deal with such reports? Do I close the bug right away? Do I downgrade it? Do I reassign it (in this case to gstreamer)? Thanks in advance! Johannes -- ~/.signature under construction
