Bug#653750: [Pkg-exim4-users] Bug#653750: retitle - nightmare bug

[Nigel Metheringham]

David Baron wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2012 04:53:23 Regid Ichira wrote:
>> --- On Wed, 7/18/12, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> retitle #653750 nightmare multi-bug
>>> about spec.txt - please do not report more issues here -
>>> file new bugs
>>> thanks
>>   Do you think it would help if I will:
>> 1. Copy the whole, multiple issues report, as a message to
>>    pkg-exim4-users.  Just to have it archived.
>> 2. close the bug.
>>
>> ?
> 
> I do not remember this.
> 
> Might save it anyway and close (or ask on the users group if anyone has this 
> issue now).

Looking at this from the exim maintainers point of view, if you are
making local modifications to spec.txt then you are pretty much fucked.

We're very happy to take documentation fixes - including as changes to
text/html if really necessary, but any bugs reported in that form take
much more work to resolve in much the same way as you giving me a binary
diff of spec.pdf or exim.o - the source looks somewhat different.

So by playing games with spec.txt at the debian package level you are
making life hard for the debian package maintainers, the upstream
maintainers and probably yourselves...  All the actors here are short on
time, so making things hard tends to mean things just don't get fixed.

Thanks to Andreas for putting the work into fixing and pushing those bug
fixes upstream.

	Nigel.

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