[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#807323: Bug#807323: Bug#807323: gparted needs policykit-1 but its neither in depends or recommends

Thu Dec 24 04:05:28 UTC 2015

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On 12/22/2015 09:19 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Why?  The BTS forwards the message automatically doesn't it?
>> 
> No it doesn't.

Sigh... that's another absurd failling in debian bts that requires
constant workarounds... added to my list.

> And I would appreciate if you would stop reopening bug reports for 
> packages you don't maintain.

The entire community would appreciate it if you would stop closing
valid, or likely valid bug reports without a good explanation.

The only thing you have suggested thus far ( after closing the bug
several times ) that is even a possible candidate for a legitimate
reason to do so is the use of policykit-1 from experimental with an
otherwise sid based system.  Until this has been confirmed, or unless
it is a known error that you can be reasonably confident is the case,
and you clearly describe that is what the user has done wrong, it is
inappropriate to dismissively close the bug report out of hand.

That said, I have managed to test your hypothesis and confirmed that
indeed, this does result from doing what you suggest, and that is why
I will no longer reopen this bug report.  It is now up to Shirish to
deny that he did install policykit-1 from experimental on an otherwise
unstable/testing system and if not, reopen the bug.  Coming to this
conclusion should not have taken several rounds of closing and
reopening the bug, but rather is something you should have clearly
spelled out when closing the bug in the first place so that Shrish
could have simply said "oh yea, my bad" and let the matter rest,
rather than contacting me privately wondering why his report had been
summarily dismissed.  Please bear this in mind when closing bug
reports in the future so that such confusion can be avoided.