On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:15:43PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
1) to fix a bug or add a feature the maintainer experienced/uses
If nobody is complaining about the bug, then fixing the bug can wait
until the next Fedora release.
2) As already told several times, not having people to test
something
does not mean that the package is not used
If they're not complaining, they're presumably happy with the current
state of the package?
3) It allows new users of the package not to find/debug the bugs
again that
are already fixed upstream
If they're willing to debug, why are they not willing to test?
4) It is not made easy to test packages, e.g. normal uses normally
do
not have a test environment set up and most likely do not want to mess
their own system. Maybe providing one-click access (e.g. via VNC) to a
test system with the package to be tested would help here.
I agree that making it easier to test packages would be beneficial in a
wide range of cases.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org