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Collaborative Bug Fixing
Posted by kaerast on Tue 14 Aug 2007 at 23:21
I love the Debian community, a couple of weeks ago I was having issues with the Postfix package and it's daft Recommends section. Today whilst on IRC somebody else complained and so I took it upon myself to file a bug, and said so on IRC, which led to somebody else suggesting the fix and yet another person actually writing a patch for me to attach to the report. So, within a few minutes we had a nice fix sent off to the Debian BTS.
Our suggested fix? Stop Postfix recommending mail-reader, and instead add "mailx | mail-reader" to the suggests.
Now we wait and see whether the maintainer will accept it. My knowledge of the Debian way of doing things isn't great, but I'm assuming the next step would then be to include it the next time Postfix gets updated on unstable.
Our suggested fix? Stop Postfix recommending mail-reader, and instead add "mailx | mail-reader" to the suggests.
Now we wait and see whether the maintainer will accept it. My knowledge of the Debian way of doing things isn't great, but I'm assuming the next step would then be to include it the next time Postfix gets updated on unstable.
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It appears to be fixed already ;)
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Posted by Utumno (202.156.xx.xx) on Thu 16 Aug 2007 at 13:03
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I like filing 'wishlist' bugs whenever a newer version of a package that interests me is available. Works well, although I always have to wait at least 10 days before the package migrates to testing.
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Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Fri 24 Aug 2007 at 12:33
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