What does one do about a package maintainer with an attitude problem?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> I filed another defect about the same package because one of its dialogs
> provided several pieces of incorrect information about a particular
> configuration setting and how to change it. He responded, "Oh, that screen
> is wrong, we don't actually use that configuration setting. Here's the
> setting you actually need to use, and how to examine or change it from the
> command line." Then he closed the defect with NOTABUG. I responded and

WONTFIX

> I filed another defect about the same page explaining exactly what I had 
> done to cause the issue I was reporting. He closed the bug with
> INSUFFICIENT_DATA, without any comment about what exactly he found lacking
> in my reproduction steps. I didn't try to argue with him, because, well, I'd
> seen by this point how much good that would do.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Jonathan Kamens wrote:

> I have little interest in wasting my time engaging in pointless "mediation" 
> that is just going to boil down to he-said, she-said, i.e., me saying, "This

There is at least one objective test that can be made:
Someone should try to repoduce the problem from your bug report.
Cannot do it myself.  Cannot get past F14.

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