Bug#877109: pybtex FTBFS with Sphinx 1.6.4-1

Ghislain Vaillant ghisvail at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 23:08:29 UTC 2017


On 09/10/17 23:06, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 12:28:22PM +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
>> ...
>> I was complaining about the insufficiencies behind this RC, more than the
>> situation with Sphinx. No offense to Adrian, but getting an RC bug reported
>> without much context to work with is just plain frustrating. Without your
>> intervention, this RC could have dragged for a long time.
> 
> Ghis, I do consider our repeated attempts to blame me for not fixing a bug in
> your package VERY offensive.

I don't recall saying anywhere in this thread that I expected *you* to 
provide a patch for this. I complained about the lack of context of the 
initial bug report, albeit too bluntly to your taste.

> I did not break it, I am not the maintainer of the package that broke,
> and I have zero knowledge about either package.

Neither did I explicitly or implicitly held you responsible for the 
issue leading up to this RC bug. Please read again.

> And the fact that I even did the extra work of finding the exact change
> that broke your package makes it even more insulting - for a large part
> of the FTBFS I report I do not even have a clue what broke it.

> The only thing I regret is that I tried to be helpful after your initial
> email, and I am seriously considering giving you a permanent entry in my
> killfile so that I won't have to read another email from you for the rest
> of my life.

Let's not reach such extremes yet. We are all working towards the same 
goal, i.e. making Debian a quality Linux distribution. Please accept my 
sincere apologies if I did hurt your feelings in any way.

Now, let's just move on shall we.

Ghis



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