Comment 8 for bug 19873

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:59:27AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 ? 20:12 -0700, Blars Blarson a ?crit :
> > 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?

If there was a reason for this easy to fix RC bug not being fixed, you
should have sent it to the bug.

You'll need to explain why gnome-games needs -Wl,--as-needed and
shouldn't be included in etch without it before I'll consider my NMU
as incorrect. (but correct as far as I knew when I made it.)

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

binutils doesn't have any easy to fix RC bugs that have been sitting
with no action for weeks. (or any other RC bugs)

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