On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:09:26PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > But I would suggest that the maintainer should do a -8 version in this case > fixing the problem, because the time needed to do a -8 upload would have been > probably orders of magnitudes less than the time all people need to find out > what to fix and fix it. I even would prefer to stay with -6 in testing until > a > -8 is released for other reasons.
I suspect you underestimate the time and resources needed to completely build X (on every architecture, mind you) I can understand why Branden didn't immediately release -8. I can't understand why he left the bugreport at normal -- I was about to file an RC bug to keep it out of testing, but saw that a "normal" bug had already been filed, and figured he'd do the sensible thing. Instead, it appears he's been actively downgrading bugs on this topic, perhaps (speculation :) ) spurred by annoyance at having dozens of users report the same bug. Ah, well. Mistakes happen.. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | He had a terrible memory. He remembered everything. | \----------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ----------------/
