Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Jul 10 17:40:00 UTC 2010


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> I certainly leave bugs in an open state until I or one of my
> co-maintainers makes a judgement call which mandates a wontfix
> resolution.  This looks like a real issue..a tough one to track
> down..but still potentially fixable. Neither cantfix nor wontfix seem
> to apply... nor does notabug. There's nothing here in the commentary
> that suggests to me this is a wontfix situation if someone was able to
> provide an upstreamable patch that could be integrated into our
> packages.

INSUFFICIENT_DATA, the standard resolution for unanswered needinfo requests, 
is the best resolution to use if the reporter refuses to file the bug 
upstream. (The data missing is a link to a properly filed upstream bug 
report.)

        Kevin Kofler



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