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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:57:15 +0100
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Subject: Re: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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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

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