down the memory hole

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches is made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a trace on the relevant bug report. If it were thought that the criticism was unfair, or i

Re: Bug#684128: down the memory hole

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:09:30 +0200 "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" wrote: >> If it were thought that the criticism was unfair, or inaccurate, then >> it could be allowed to remain in place, so that other people might >> judge its lack of merit for themselves. >> >> In the case of bug #684128, post #108, h

Re: Bug#684128: down the memory hole

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:51:38 +0200 Samuel Thibault wrote: >> I disagree: that mail starts with a chat between "Humpty Dumpty" and >> "Alice", which both have nothing to do with the bug at hand. There >> was nothing in the subject or the first paragraphs of the text that >> indicated how that story

so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:55 -0300 Ben Armstrong wrote: > Just take care in future that the style of communications you used > triggered someone's "wetware spam filter" with a false positive. I initially wrote up a detailed bug report, and then when somebody suggested that the problem would get

Re: failure to communicate

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:09:04 +0200 Christian PERRIER wrote: > This mail is a very good argument to confirm that overcomplicated > methods to make your point will just fail. > > If you have a point to make it, make ti. Once. With facts. I supplied plenty of facts. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:45:26 -0300 Ben Armstrong wrote: > the long and sordid tale of your bid to get attention for this bug That's right; I wrote it up in detail, provided patches when asked to do so, provided test scripts to demonstrate the correctness of those patches, answered every question

Re: Re: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread ian_bruce
a écrit : > You want that bug fixed? Great: test the patch, document your tests I did all that. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684128#103 > gather feedback, get involved quoting from the above: I would be interested to hear suggestions as to what sort of tests of bi

Re: Bug#857394: libgegl-dev: contains duplicate copy of openCL library files

2017-04-13 Thread ian_bruce
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:51:03 +0200 "Matteo F. Vescovi" wrote: >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-color.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-init.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-random.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-types.h

Re: Bug#857394: Debian Policy violation -- libgegl-dev contains duplicate copy of openCL library files

2017-04-14 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 01:25:29 -0700 wrote: >> I'm not going to try a 'merge-on-the-fly' on headers to save a bunch >> of kilobytes. Sorry. > > Saving a bunch of kilobytes is really not the issue, as I suggested > when I said "isn't that a Policy violation?". I was right -- it IS a Debian Policy

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#827104: Recommends: obsolete package xfce4-volumed

2016-06-13 Thread ian_bruce
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827104 On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:30:19 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Please remove this false dependency. >>> >>> It's not a false dependency, it's just that the package has been >>> removed and the dependency line not updated. >> >> If a d