El Lunes 23 Mayo 2005 17:09, Hamish Moffatt escribió: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:30:49PM +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > > El Lunes 23 Mayo 2005 16:24, Hamish Moffatt escribió: > > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:56:07PM +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > > > > Remember that Debian maintainers' obligations include to track and > > > > solve all bugs, not only RC-bugs. If you are in lack of time, please > > > > consider to accept a co-maintainer or to orphan the package." > > > > > > A lot of bugs are forwarded upstream to be fixed. You shouldn't expect > > > the Debian maintainer to be able to fix any and all bugs in any > > > package. > > > > I was refering to bugs *WITHOUT ACTIVITY* (that is, ignored bugs). > > Forward the bug upstream *IS* activity. > > With reference to your paragraph above, does forwarding the bug qualify > as "tracking and solving bugs"? > > I am not intending to nitpick. I thought you were asking that Debian > developers actually fix all bugs. If that was not your intention then > I misread you.
Don't worry, I don't think you are nitpicking. If you review my first comment: "Maybe a polite email from the MIA effort to maintainers with long-standing bugs (and no activity on them) could help. Something like:" I was refering to bugs without any activity (ignored bugs). I was not meaning that Debian developer must fix all the bugs in a program (I understand that only Debian specific bugs MUST be fixed, although fixing any kind of bug is always nice). Regarding the text to send to the maintainers, note that I wrote a fast proposal, so don't pay too much attention to the actual wording of the text. (I tried to clarify it saying "something like:"). Anyway, I consider that forwarding the bug (when justified) is included in "tracking the bug". I hope my intention is clear now. Regards, Cesar
