Panayiotis Karabassis <panayk@gmail.com> (20/09/2011): > So, let's get this straight: > 1) Your users have a found a critical bug with your package. > 2) Your users invested a great deal of time and work in tracking down > the bug, and fixing it, what YOU should be doing. > 3) Your users have supplied you with a working patch, and built a > working package, which you only have to review and upload. > > But YOU would rather leave a great deal of your users (and actually > users who are using a Free computer) without an Xserver. So that you > don't have to type the command 'rm 01_mips-sarea.diff' sometime in the > future. > > Great work and great sense of responsibility. Keep it up. > > P.S. From what I understand from previous messages, the patch has > already been submitted upstream. But isn't that your job TOO? Otherwise > what's the point of the BTS or even a distribution? What we try to do is simple: do the right thing. The right thing to do in the FLOSS world is to share patches. The simplest way to do that is forward patches upstream. Upstream who knows what patch to merge, reject, rework, etc., possibly giving advice when needed. We've tried to explain what to do to get things done. Now, if you want to get that patch merged, you know the next step. Asking other users what they think won't really help getting a patch merged upstream. Mraw, KiBi.
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