su, 2005-05-15 kello 23:59 +0100, Paul Martin kirjoitti: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:51:48AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I've verified that Brice Figureau's bug is valid, and that his patch > > fixes it. Attached is a patch complete with an updated debian/changelog > > as well. I will NMU it shortly (since we're in a 0-day NMU period) and > > release managers to accept the change for sarge. > > If you'd read the bug, you'd notice that I'd noted the bug, considered > it minor (very few scripts rely on this undocumented feature), and noted > that logrotate was already frozen.
I disagree with you about the severity of the bug. I agree with Alex Owen that breaking log rotation scripts written by sysadmins is bad and can cause data loss. It doesn't matter that no Debian packages rely on it. The behavior does indeed seem to be undocumented. However, it has worked like that for many years now (since before woody), and so I'd say it is a documentation bug and it is not unreasonable to expect the behavior to continue. That a package is frozen does not prevent fixing of release critical bugs. > Fixing a bug that's only just THIS DAY had its priority changed to > critical, and not at least giving the maintainer time to look at it is > downright unfriendly behaviour. This is the second time you've done this > to me. Take time to read the dates and times on the bug reports. I did notice the dates. I ignored the fact that the bug had just been upgraded. A large part of the reason for this was your decision to downgrade it from important to normal. The fact that we are, in fact, in a 0-day NMU mode, helped my decision, of course. That it was going to make you angry again did not deter me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
