On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:38:26PM +0200, Roman Czyborra wrote: > Dear Martin, I am not very happy about your closing this bug report > prematurely. It is unsatisfactory if the problem is declared to be solved > when in fact it has not even been pinpointed. I was told that reportbug > reported the bug to the dpkg's maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - why should we > forbid the Skype folks to participate in the Debian bug tracking system > just because they haven't liberated their code yet?
Roman, The Debian bug tracking system has no record of skype because it isn't in the Debian archive; it simply doesn't exist as far as the BTS is concerned. [EMAIL PROTECTED] only accepted the bug report at all because we prefer to have bug reports against unknown packages dealt with by a human rather than rejected automatically by a robot. We cannot do anything useful with these bugs and thus do not accept them. Similarly, bug reports against (say) microsoft-windows or mac-os-x would be closed, regardless of whether they are real bugs. If you visit http://bugs.debian.org/skype, you'll find that it says "No maintainer for skype. Please do not report new bugs against this package.", just as it would for any other string it didn't recognise. It's a bug in reportbug that it sent it to our bug tracking system as well as to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I doubt the Skype people do anything with bugs filed in our bug tracking system. Please just send bugs to that e-mail address in future. If the Skype folks want to participate in the Debian bug tracking system, then they should arrange to participate in the Debian archive too (note that packages in non-free make use of our bug tracking system just fine). We do not provide bug tracking facilities for the world at large, only for Debian. Regards, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
