On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:17:10PM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote: > Robert Millan schrieb: > > I don't see why. I have a bunch of resources to find a solution for this > > trivial bug. > > You are implying the other DDs are your ressource for finding > what you are calling "trivial bugs". They are not. It's your > duty to think of most of it beforehand. > If you didn't want to imply that: Which ressources do you have? > Why did you not already use them?
I didn't want to imply that. I was referring to general packaging resources like preinst script, debconf, etc. (Actualy, I explained some possible ways to solve this in response to Colin. Then Jamie added other possibilities, like using init.d scripts or an update-kernel script) > > I'm not suitable because my package has a trivial bug? Sorry, but you're > > not entitled to put my skills in question. > > Straight question, straight answer: > Did you think about system.map at all? Yes. I decided to not provide it and investigate later wether it was worth providing or not. > > Is getting wchan displayable a reason to solve the System.map issue? If it > > is, I'll solve it. But I haven't seen anyone explaining what is wchan > > useful for at all. > > It's not our duty to explain why we want feature A or B. > If your are going to provide a new style of packaging something, > it's your duty do do it at least as well as the old style > and to preserve ALL features, no matter how useful you > find them personally. Agreed. But the discussion on system.map started with someone claiming the bug implied either a dessign problem in my package or that I'm incompetent. > > My amount of thought and consideration will apply when I get bug reports > > through the BTS. > > That's too late for thoughts. > > You are telling us: > I'll throw this package in Debian, > I don't care about features I don't use, > if anybody does, he should file a bug report. > > That's not what I'd call thorough working. That's not exact. I do care about features even if I don't use them, what I dislike is discussing things in this ITP that actualy belong to the BTS. > > Which brings back the question on wether you're looking for bugs on > > purpose just for the sake of trolling. > > YOU are the one who should look for bugs (on purpose!) before. Yes, but not in order to feed a discussion like this one. > All those people do this to help you seeing the difficulties > in your project. It's meant to help you. Probably most of them, but not all. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
