Hi On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:24:12PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [3] "tries to fix" means that he looks into the bug. I do expect a > maintainer to be able to fix a "missing build dependency on xyz" bug > or to forward the bug to upstream. OTOH it's clear that there are > cases where the maintainer can't do much about a bug (e.g. there's an > inactive/dead upstream and he can't fix a bug in the source himself).
Hi I have a suggestion to make it easier for others to fix such problems. One thing is a additional tag to the bug-database. HELP-NEEDED or some other similar name. This tag should be added to a package when the maintainer can not resolve the bug him/her-self. It is similar to the moreinfo tag but requests for help from other people than the submitter. Maybe also add NMU-ACCEPTED to the list of tags in the bugs-database. It will be added for a package that the maintainer accepts NMU:s for this bug (but probably want a patch too). The above tags should be added after forwarding to upstream (if applicable) but it is not needed because of various reasons, like no upstream, debian-only-related-bug, etc. Is this something good? Regards, // Ola -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 584 36 LINKÖPING | | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
