Could you Ubuntu folks please stop attacking upstream with a threat to pull a package? That is just assy behavior.
Upstream pointed out a flaw in the selection/release/update workflow that is used to prevent a fix from becoming manifest. It was good advice from upstream, for free, based on their intimate familiarity with the code, and they don't deserve to be treated that way. They don't have to do anything for Ubuntu, especially for some guilt-tripping threat about ruining some perceived fame by being included in a distro. 1. Asking upstream to go into the past and bake out a special patch just for Ubuntu by some hint about "finding a patch" is just rude. This is an Ubuntu maintainer's job if a newer version is known to work. And BTW, that makes Ubuntu a test pilot for some wierdo patch that wasn't necessary in the first place. 2. Citing Ubuntu's tight release process for witholding a fix, and then noting that the package is in universe (which is "not supported by Ubuntu") is contradictory. 3. "I don't think" is not an answer about admittability of a patch. "The patch was rejected by the people who decide" has actual backbone. 4. And since when does the size of the patch matter if a problem is fixed? Really, some projects will go through a refactor, and there is simply no way to get a small patch for situations like that. Ubuntu does not get to choose when they get this free windfall from upstream. 5. And upstream called Ubuntu out for grabbing some bizarro version and locking it into a stable release, when it's not. Ubuntu is famous for this. This thread is making Ubuntu maintainers sound like a bunch of sysadmins instead of software developers. And the description of the release cycles implies that using a non-LTS version implies greater stability for all those packages that are not in main. And BTW, I have the problem, too, over a year since 250974 was opened. I have the 0.1.9-1 version, because it's not in main, universe, multiverse, updates, or backports. -- apt-cacher-ng hangs and corrupts packages (intrepid) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302693 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
