Bug#877109: pybtex FTBFS with Sphinx 1.6.4-1

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 12:08:29AM +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> 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.
>...

Your repeated "without much context to work with" are just fancy words 
for blaming me for not having debugged a FTBFS in your package.

I did tell you everything I knew (including providing the email address 
of the person causing the FTBFS in the initial bug report), and it is 
not my job to debug a FTBFS in your package.

You were even lucky that I was able to point you at what broke it,
there are more than 200 open RC bugs for FTBFS I reported [1] and
in many cases the error message is all I can provide.

> Ghis

cu
Adrian

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=bunk%40debian.org

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