Re: bug #16666 -- assigned to wrong package
Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Ted Whalen wrote:
>
> > This bug is assigned to my package, wm2, but as far as I can tell, it
> > has nothing to do with my package. Nor can I determine which package
> > it belongs to. Should I close it?
>
> Sometimes, people reassign bugs to other packages. From time to time,
> people make little mistakes when reassigning bugs (we are humans :-).
> Everything is "reversible" as long as the bug is not closed and
> forgotten. If this is the case, the history of the bug will tell you
> which was the package against which the bug was first reported.
The trouble is that the package this bug was originally assigned to no
longer exists. The maintainer of wmlib-dev at the time was Neil A.
Rubin, who is now maintaining the Afterstep package. I'm not even
sure, from the bug, what version of wmlib-dev it refers to.
tew
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I'm gonna need some more ammonia.
Ted Whalen - tew@nwu.edu
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