Bug#3251: closed by Marcos Fouces (Bug#3251: Any reason to keep a wontfix bug opened for years?)

2019-01-29 Thread Ian Jackson
reopen -1 ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk severity -1 normal retitle -1 please work around corruption due to partial records on accton > Now, it is really closed. I'm afraid I don't really agree with this bug closure. Note that Christian Perrier's message was not sent to me, so I did not have

Bug#3251: Any reason to keep a wontfix bug opened for years?

2019-01-29 Thread Marcos Fouces
Hello I also believe that this bug report is useless. As today (January 2019) it is almost 23 years old! Upstream is dead and, as far as i know, nobody took over upstream maintenance. For this reason i close this bug now. Greetings, Marcos

Bug#3251: Any reason to keep a wontfix bug opened for years?

2008-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
hat bug is the 6th oldest opened bug in Debian. It is however marked upstream, wontfix and upstream is dead. I really wonder whether it is useful to keep the bug opened while everybody knows that nothing will ever be done about it. After all, even if it is closed, the information is still here