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| From | Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.devel |
| Subject | Re: interpretation of wontfix |
| Date | 2018-03-28 13:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <vyh7P-2l1-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <vycUx-809-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <vyfpn-1dK-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <vyglr-1PT-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 at 12:17:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I think "wontfix" is exactly the feature of the BTS that was invented to
> solve the problem I described. The bug is not closed and remains listed
> - so everybody is free to ignore that tag and close the bug.
Is this how most people interpret wontfix? I'd usually interpreted it as
an indication of policy rather than priority: "I acknowledge that this
is a bug, but it isn't going to change, even if you provide a patch".
For instance, if there's a design flaw that people are now relying on,
such that correcting the design flaw would cause regressions that are
at least as bad as the design flaw itself, then that's an ideal use for
my interpretation of wontfix.
In Bugzilla, WONTFIX and its cousins NOTABUG and NOTOURBUG are
resolutions, not tags (you use them by closing a bug as RESOLVED WONTFIX
instead of RESOLVED FIXED), which suggests that my interpretation matches
that of Bugzilla's designers; but perhaps the wontfix tag in the Debian
BTS was meant to mean something different?
I would tend to use the help tag, not the wontfix tag, for bugs where I
don't intend to work on the bug myself but I'd consider applying a patch
(including porting to non-release architectures).
smcv
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Re: Usage of real m68k hardware John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2018-03-28 09:00 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-03-28 10:00 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Carsten Strotmann <cas@strotmann.de> - 2018-03-28 10:20 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2018-03-28 10:20 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> - 2018-03-28 10:20 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 11:50 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 11:10 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2018-03-28 11:40 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-03-28 12:10 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 12:30 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-03-28 13:40 +0200
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Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Ingo Jürgensmann <ij@2018.bluespice.org> - 2018-03-28 09:30 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Carsten Strotmann <carsten@strotmann.de> - 2018-03-28 10:50 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> - 2018-03-28 11:20 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-03-28 12:20 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2018-03-28 13:00 +0200
Re: interpretation of wontfix Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 13:10 +0200
Re: interpretation of wontfix Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-03-28 14:00 +0200
Re: interpretation of wontfix Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> - 2018-03-28 14:30 +0200
Re: interpretation of wontfix Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2018-03-28 14:50 +0200
Re: interpretation of wontfix Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2018-03-28 17:30 +0200
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Re: interpretation of wontfix Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2018-03-29 20:30 +0200
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Re: interpretation of wontfix Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-03-29 00:10 +0200
Re: interpretation of wontfix Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-03-29 08:30 +0200
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Re: interpretation of wontfix Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2018-03-29 16:30 +0200
Re: interpretation of wontfix Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2018-03-29 20:20 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2018-03-28 14:00 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 19:30 +0200
Enhanced syntax for Architecture field (Was: Usage of real m68k hardware) Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-03-28 20:30 +0200
Re: Enhanced syntax for Architecture field (Was: Usage of real m68k hardware) Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2018-03-28 22:30 +0200
Re: Enhanced syntax for Architecture field Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-03-29 09:50 +0200
Re: Enhanced syntax for Architecture field Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2018-03-29 19:30 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 20:30 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> - 2018-04-01 01:50 +0200
Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 22:00 +0200
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Re: Usage of real m68k hardware Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2018-03-29 14:10 +0200
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