Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> The way I understand it, they HAVE been pushing... and pushing... for >>>> a long time... against a nonresponsive binutils maintainer. This >>>> thread is just their latest, last-ditch effort since nothing else >>>> worked so far. But I could be wrong, I guess. >>> You are right. The patch has been around for years and requests for any >>> response to the patch have just been ignored. >> According to the bug log the patch was not ready when the maintainer >> wanted to apply it and nobody bothered to start an NMU process...
> What bug are you reading? > > Sat, 27 May 2006 10:16:36 +0200: initial report with patch > Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:48:26 +0200: NMU attempt gets vetoed Nope, this is only a patch with a mail subject 'Patch for pending NMU of binutils' > Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:01:53 +0200: 2. maintainer misunderstands the patch > Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:44:30 +0200: some discussion about the misunderstanding > Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:58:28 +0200: patch update for the i386->i486 ABI change > Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:12:48 +0200: prodding the maintainer for an reaction > Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:43:16 +0100: first real reply by maintainer Patch was not ready... > Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:14:35 +0200: patch fix for issues raise by maintainer Didn't look like the issue was settled as the mail of Aurélien on 03 Jul was ending questioning the patch... > Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:56:45 +0200: patch split into the ABI and multiarch parts > > An NMU was tried and it and all future NMU where vetoed by the maintainer. I only see discussion about the misunderstanding of a patch and fixing of the patch after the maintainer comment. There was no mail asking if it was allright to NMU, nor a real NMU attempt AFAICS... > In summary: > > - 13 month from initial report to raising a minor issue that has no > negative effects on the functionality > - 4 days to fix the issue Not clear from the bug log that everything was right already... > - 9 month without reaction and counting 9 month waiting instead of trying to resolve the issue... Btw looks like a very colored summary to me... If I want a feature to be included in a package which the maintainer is not really interested in, I would make sure that my patch would be ready to apply and/or make sure I tried to actually NMU... Cheers Luk PS: I would not mind having multiarch support myself... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
