On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:59:07PM +0100, Jonathan Lange wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:09:54PM -0700, Evan Broder wrote: > >> If we're going to focus on making this easier, can we focus on the > >> first two options? Historically speaking, packages that live solely in > >> Ubuntu and aren't part of any release's user experience tend to end up > >> largely orphaned by a MOTU team that's overworked and understaffed. > > > > Amen. Even just from fixing builds over the last few weeks, I'm getting > > tired of fixing stuff that was stuffed into Ubuntu a few releases ago > > and then ignored! > > Do those who stuffed it in get alerted of breaks?
There were bug reports; they were supposed to subscribe to bug reports on the package (although of course they might have forgotten; but one might expect subscribing to bug reports to be appropriate due diligence when asking Ubuntu to distribute your package). > What reason would they have to care? What reason does any developer have to care about bug reports? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
