(reply to public mail sent to d-devel). On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > The problem is that I do not know how to handle with a bug. The > maintainer of this bug is not in the mood to fix the bug he rather > slight the submitters (not only me) in the bugreport and also by private > mail.
If I were him, I would not adopt the requested fix either, as it is wrong. If the 2.5 package replaces the 2.4 packages, it *MUST* conflict with it and that's the beginning and end of it. Replaces: without Conflicts: is used in special circunstances (most of the time versioned), e.g., to move files from a package to another. And in that case, it *always* must be coordinated between the two packages, which evidendly is not the case here. > I honore the work, maintainers do. But this subject do not increase the > trust in debian as whole and in the packages of him specialy. I thought > that there is a minimum of social competence to get debian maintainer > but I have to see that this was a wrong assument. :-( He is only human, therefore he has a finite ammount of patience, that apparently run out. That's a shame, of course, he should have known better than to let it get to him, or to let a BTS thread degrade to such levels. Every time a DD talks back insultingly to an user, he has lost the argument. Ron, please, the next time you feel like insulting someone while wearing your Debian Developer hat (and regardless of whether they deserve it or not), DON'T. And the wontfix tag exists just for the kind of issue you had on that bug report, so please consider using it (after reassigning one of the bugs, or them all, to the offending package). As for you, Klaus, what were you thinking when you replied in a tone like that to someone that was obviously pretty much pissed off? Regardless of whether he should have replied to you in an insulting tone or not, you *did* ask for trouble. Let the matter drop, you are not helping. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
