[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#609905: Closing bug with missing input from bug submitter

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:23:17PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
> > reopen 609905
> > tags 609905 - moreinfo unreproducible
> > thanks

> > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:37:01PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > > Last year, during my yearly samba bug triage, I asked whether this bug
> > > was reproducible. As I didn't get any answer and am not myself in
> > > position to reproduce it, I'm therefore closing it, as I'm doing with
> > > "moreinfo, unreproducible" bugs instead of keeping them opened for
> > > ages without any action.

> > Well, per my last mail to this bug, I don't think there's been a valid test
> > of the reproducibility of this issue.  So as this bug should not be tagged
> > 'moreinfo' or 'reproducible', it seems this does not meet your criteria, so
> > I'm reopening. :)

> I beg to disagree about "moreinfo". We're still waiting for
> information from the original bug submitter and, guess what, I bet
> than in 10 years, we still won't have any.

There's no information here that's needed from the submitter.  Someone just
needs to try correctly to reproduce the bug.

If we're stretched too thin to do that, I don't think that's an acceptable
reason to close a bug.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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