On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 00:34:55 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> On Nov 08, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Sending Debian bugs upstream is the maintainers job. Obviously we
> Not if I disagree with them.
That's wild, I wrote exactly the same thought in the next sentence, but you
needed to cut me off.
Anyway, I absolutely agree you shouldn't send bugs upstream when
you don't agree they're bugs. Bug reporters are often mistaken, and
filtering out dubious bugs is an important part of the maintainer's
job. Moreover, I've been mistaken before, and am grateful that on those
occasions I only annoyed the Debian guy rather the wider world.
> > 3. We will not hide problems
> It's my call to decide if this is a problem or not, and I say no.
> Stop reopening this bug.
I have doubts about that interpretation of Debian policy, and would
like to remind you of the 'wontfix' tag. Isn't the whole point to allow
for a maintainer being uncertain, or just wrong, (that never happens!),
and what if you were wrong? Or simply just allowing there to be a
space to disagree.
wontfix
This bug won't be fixed. Possibly because this is a choice
between two arbitrary ways of doing things and the maintainer
and submitter prefer different ways of doing things, possibly
because changing the behaviour will cause other, worse, problems
for others, or possibly for other reasons.
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags
Nobody can make you send it upstream, or wants you to if you don't
believe in it. Yet since we do "prefer different ways of doing things"
in regards to the specificity of a certain error message, it seems the
'wontfix' tag is more _accurate_, as it publicly reveals dissent, while
'closed' is less so, because it hides disagreement.
So, barring good reasons why 'closed' is better, I expect to reopen
this bug yet again, after a few days cooling time, as per the above
'wontfix' tag policy. Stay frosty...
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