Third contact attempt for AWOL? xfig maintainer: Ngo Than

[Hans de Goede]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:35:11PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> As outlined here:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers
>>
>> I would like to declare the xfig maintainer AWOL and take over xfig, does 
>> anyone know a better way then email to contact Than?
>>
>> I've been trying to get this bug (with known and included fix) fixed for 
>> ages, yet it is still present in F-8 (and rawhide):
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=201992
>>
>> Notice that this bug was filed on 2006-08-10 and a fix was known on 
>> 2006-11-17, after this I've tried to contact Than once more on 2007-08-17 
>>  and 2007-11-04, and now a last attempt at 2007-11-14
> 
> Adding -fno-strict-aliasing without finding out what is the problem
> and really fixing the aliasing violation (or in the rare case this
> turns out to be a compiler bug coming up with small self-contained
> testcase that proves it) is not fixing a bug, merely working around it.
> 

Agree,

But it beats a crashing app by a large margin, more over the problem is not 
specifically the bug not being fixed, it is there being no response at all.

Regards,

Hans