From: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Joerg Schilling schilling@fokus.gmd.de wrote:
The Debian Bug list is badly managed (at least for cdrecord) and it does not help to keep cdrecord bug-free. Tehy never removed remarks for bugs that never exists but are a result of missunderstood or unread documentation.
Did they accept your claim that these bugs "never exist[ed]"? If so, have you asked the maintainer andersee@debian.org why the bugs are not closed? If there was no answer, have you asked debian-qa about it? Now, maybe I'm missing something, but the BTS doesn't show any entries from you on any of the important bugs, nor on a random sample of normal bugs.
I did this several times during the last years and finally succeeded on December 31st 2001.
Also, I note that there are bugs filed against your documentation. Maybe it is not as good as it could be. Have you considered getting someone else to review and improve it?
If people find bugs, they should write me a mail.
I send him a description for an algorithm that fiyes the problem and would allow somebody who knows the program to create a fix in less than 3 hours.
We're only getting one side of the story here, I know, but what was the response? You've already hinted elsewhere that the fix would take severe internal restructuring. I assume other things would break, at least temporarily.
I am restructuring my programs frequently. This is the only way to keep something like e.g. star maintainable for 20 years (1982-2002). As the bug description was filed to them at least 3 years ago GNU make should have been restructured meahwhile or it is not actively maintained anymore.
Jörg
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