X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:47:54 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies Message-ID: <20100819074754.GN11340@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C6C1B01.4020808@blunn.org> <20100818182641.GB22698@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4C6C4372.2070701@blunn.org> <20100818205009.GK11340@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Aug 18 21:57, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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 ImageMagick package, but there doesn't appear to be any defined process for reporting bugs which might narrow down the attention-grab to a more relevant set of 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.  It'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.  Are 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. Exactly! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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