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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies
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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

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