Dear xiao sheng wen, dear Debian PhotoTools Maintainers,
I originally didn't want to call the author cognitively dishevelled, but him dismissing the Debian bug report as babble on a “random other site” and then lecturing us on upstream interaction is just charming. “Six words and a link is not a valid upstream bug report... you really do need to provide a meaningful report upstream” is so much a strong argument; it proves the author's ability to click and a willful, sooo good-faith move. “given I am the one who gets to merge things surely that counts for something?” and “I await someone making a convincing argument" prove convincing, final, unchallengeable, and unassailable authority. “its super weird that you'd assume the use of a modern coding assistant implies some sort of professional incompetence on my part” elegantly transforms a missing chunk into missing respect – super logical! “The output is also trivial to work around if you don't like it. Just grep it away” is equivalent to defending a splinter in a chair by saying, “Just sit a bit to the right; it's easy.” Reformulating my #10, the phrasing “Resolution: (not specified)” is misleading: the absence of pHYs does not say there is a “not specified” value but means complete nonexistence including the tag name. Printing the line creates a bogus similarity with tags without data, tricking the reader into a belief that pHYs could contain nothing. Better, non‑arbitrary: consistency with the prior behavior (omission for absent chunks such as sBIT). The phrasing “Resolution: (not specified)” is noisy, regardless of whether we look at the output, parse it, or diff it. Once the reads gets the pHYs semantics, the phrase serves no purpose. The “deliberate change” (my suspicion is that it has been sooo much looked at) trades clarity for verbosity – alas, without more insight. The claim that one can “just grep it away” is absurd. Requiring a user to post‑process the output of a tool that claims to inspect PNG files is an admission that the tool's printout is broken by design. In summary, removing the line when the PNG contains no pHYs would improve correctness and usability. I would be thankful to the Debian maintainers if I could kindly ask them to fix this regardless of the upstream author's, erm, hermeneutically challenged posture. Gratefully, Md
