X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100818205009.GK11340@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <4C6C1B01.4020808@blunn.org> <20100818182641.GB22698@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4C6C4372.2070701@blunn.org> <20100818205009.GK11340@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:57:15 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 18 August 2010 21:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 21:32, William Blunn wrote: >> On 18/08/2010 19:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:40:17PM +0100, William Blunn wrote: >> >>My apologies to all the folks NOT involved in maintaining the ImageMag= ick package, but there doesn't appear to be any defined process for reporti= ng bugs which might narrow down the attention-grab to a more relevant set o= f people. >> >Actually, this is the defined way to report bugs in a cygwin package. >> >> Ahhhh I see. It's /defined/ to be mediocre. >> >> Rather than attempting to solve the problem head-on, redefine the >> problem domain so that the problem is already solved. >> >> Inspired. > > Is there something in the water lately, which makes people on the > list more aggressive than usual? > > It hasn't been redefined at all. =C2=A0It's the common way of reporting > problems for a long time: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > If you don't like it, I'm sorry. =C2=A0Are you going to volunteer to > maintain a Cygwin packages bug-tracking system? Besides, thanks to the magic of mail filters, grabbing the attention of a package maintainer isn't the problem anyway. The issue is whether there's an active maintainer in the first place. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple