Re: Why are old bug reports left open?

2015-06-02 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-06-02 20:10, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > [...] > If I were the maintainer, I believe that I would have closed a bug like this. > The actual maintainer however (now emeritus) is smarter than me. He did not > close it. This suggests that he knew something I do not understand about > prop

Re: Why are old bug reports left open?

2015-06-02 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 06:10:24PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > A bug is years old. It will probably not be fixed. It should probably not > be fixed. It is probably not even a bug. > > The bug's submitter is not complaining. > > Why is the bug still open? > > Example: #619363. [1] > >

Why are old bug reports left open?

2015-06-02 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
A bug is years old. It will probably not be fixed. It should probably not be fixed. It is probably not even a bug. The bug's submitter is not complaining. Why is the bug still open? Example: #619363. [1] 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619363 If I were the maintain