On 03/12/2010 11:25 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
On 03/11/2010 07:18 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Once 4.n+1.0 is out, 4.n.x is no longer updated, there are no further bugfix
> releases, any bugs in it will stay unfixed. And there are also nice new
> features in the new version.
So this all boils down to you, the package maintainer, being unwilling or
unable to actually fix bugs? Is that what you're saying?
Umm, is this really the standard we expect to hold package maintainers
to? I expect them to be able to communicate the bug to upstream and if
upstream fixes it provide that fix if it is not too disruptive. Now I
have fixed bugs in my packages, and that is a nice thing for a
maintainer to be able to do, but I'm not sure we are ready to make that
a requirement.
At least, that is how I interpret the phrase "actually fix bugs".
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