On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:34:32PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:47:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote : > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:48:38PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > > > But if you read this bug (#307833), you'd see that the maintainer > > > > doesn't > > > > consider it a bug, and has documented why in the README file. > > > It is a bug as the package is not usable without curl or wget installed. > > > Though, I give him a chance to respond to my intention to NMU... > > An NMU is not the place to "fix" things that the maintainer has > > specifically said aren't bugs. > Dear Anthony, > As stated by the Debian Policy Manual :
I'm not disputing whether it's a bug or not, the maintainer is. If you are *helping* the maintainer, then fine: do an NMU. But if you're specifically trying to do something against their wishes, do *not*, under any circumstances, NMU. Find a compromise the maintainer thinks is acceptable, or as a last resort talk to the tech ctte instead. To be clear: it's the maintainer that gets to judge whether what you're doing is helpful or not, not you. > As complaining to the tech-ctte should not be done becaues I did not > even try to contact the maintainer directly, I will either: > - Forget about it, or > - File a wishlist bug against packages.debian.org, or whatever > appropriate, to suggest to stop suggesting the use of a broken > package, or at least to mention the bug. Huh? What's wrong with "- Contact the maintainer" ? > Sébastien, please fix your bug! Can you imagine Debian if all the > packages, like yours, would need a manual inspection of the error > messages to figure out on what it really depends ??? In my experience you almost always get a better response from people if you assume they've got a good reason for doing what they have been doing, rather than just trying to add extra punctuation to your sentences. Admittedly, punctuation is pretty cool... Cheers, aj
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