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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:46:33 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): |
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| > | As you have might have noticed, they already have a newer version |
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| > | stable. But apparently asking them to respond on a bug within 5 |
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| > | months is way too much. :P |
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| > Well yes, since there's no clear link between bugs and packages. |
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| > Things can get stabled incidentally and for reasons other than the |
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| > ones in one particular bug. |
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| Eh? Stabilizing for multiple security issues [1] is "incidental"?! |
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Stabling for multiple local denial of service security issues can be |
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done incidentally when stabling for a data loss fix (which I'm |
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not claiming is the case for one particular package, but merely giving |
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as an example demonstrating what "incidental" means). |
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| What on earth are you talking about here? And why almost 6 months is |
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| not enough for someone to respond on a bug with a simple "we'll only |
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| support newer versions and don't care about MySQL 4.0.x any more, go |
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| drop it"? |
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Priorities. The arch teams could be too busy dealing with other bugs |
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that matter more or too busy dealing with noise bugs. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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