Comment 20 for bug 19873

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:31:53 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Josselin Mouette <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: Blars Blarson <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#319162: NMU patch

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On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:59:27AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 =E0 20:12 -0700, Blars Blarson a =E9crit :
> > NMU patch attached.

> Oh, great. Do you know that, when a package is co-maintained by
> twenty-four people and a bug isn't fixed, there may be some reasons
> behind?

> This pseudo-fix won't help anything. Couldn't you help fixing some
> unmaintained packages causing this kind of issues, like binutils,
> instead?

Yeah, right. binutils is unmaintained; the issue couldn't possibly be
that you've made poor design decisions in your packages by making them
dependent on kludgy, non-default toolchain options that policy doesn't
require the toolchain to support at all...

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