RE: Really, Really, Really Old Bugs

1999-09-10 Thread arto . astala
There are many schools of thought on handling bugs like these in Debian. There even has been some bug wars of closing and reopening the same bug repeatedly, because of these differences. So, there is no right answer, everybody just Does The Right Thing and hopes it will be accepted. That said, whe

Re: Really, Really, Really Old Bugs

1999-09-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:54:23AM +0100, Frankie Fisher écrivait: > Maybe you could downgrade it or something. No please close it if : - the bug submitter doesn't respond to your questions - you can't duplicate the problem with the last version - the bug is quite old - nobody else complained abo

Re: Really, Really, Really Old Bugs

1999-09-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 08:12:19PM -0400, Ben Darnell wrote: > But in this case, there is no evidence that the bug actually exists in > this package. The bug can't be reproduced, and the submitter can't be > reached for additional information. If the bug was in this package, it You could possib

Re: Really, Really, Really Old Bugs

1999-09-10 Thread Ben Darnell
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:54:23AM +0100, Frankie Fisher wrote: > > > > > > Can I just close this bug? > > > > > > > Sure, someone can always re-open it. > > Not that I am an authority on the subject (or have ever even been in a > position to close a bug as I'm not even a maintainer yet), but t

Re: Really, Really, Really Old Bugs

1999-09-09 Thread Frankie Fisher
> > > > Can I just close this bug? > > > > Sure, someone can always re-open it. Not that I am an authority on the subject (or have ever even been in a position to close a bug as I'm not even a maintainer yet), but that would be tantamount to denying that the problem exists. And debian prides it

RE: Really, Really, Really Old Bugs

1999-09-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Sep-99 Brent Fulgham wrote: > I have a bug filed against an old version of premail that > is about 850 days old. I can neither recreate the > problem, nor get feedback from the filer that the > problem exists (it's a really vague report in which > she lost some mail, thought it *might* be