On Wed, 12 May, 2010 at 13:18:25 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:36:12AM +0100, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 12/05/10 11:10, Jon Clausen wrote:
I mean it seems pretty clear to me, that * the package is broken as shipped with the distribution * the fixed package should show up as a regular update
so why doesn't it?
To be released as an online update for 11.2 or previous, first it has to be requested by the people involved then approved by the maintenance team then pushed into the SUSE internal update system.
Hmm... a lot more involved than I thought. <snip>
Just my opinion, but I think that the case for this being an update is a bit poor, because you say it has been broken for a long time and noone seems to have noticed till now.
Well, maybe I'm just the first to be sufficiently annoyed to report the bug?
But on the other hand, it would be a very simple update - only a single package is affected.
Precisely; The fix is trivial, only one package is affected, so why *not* push out as an update?
The fix is quite simple and I did it only for Factory...
In general we do not fix everything for older distributions ...
Of course I realize that stuff has to go through a screening process, testing etc - which takes resources - before it can be pushed out as an Update... but; It makes me wonder how many other faulty packages I have on my systems, where commands have slight malfunctions, which I may overlook? Don't get me wrong; I do appreciate the quick fix. But I am a little surprised that *any* "it's clearly a bug, which is easily fixed" doesn't just get submitted to the Updates 'tree', rather than having to pass a "usecase evaluation threshold"...
For this specific bug I wonder if the usecase of "tree" displaying files larger than 2GB is really a bug with high impact that we should spend time on.
Well for me at least, it has a pretty high impact in that several of my filesystems have many files way larger than that.
I can reopen and NEEDINFO maintenance@opensuse.org ...
Yes, please :) Should I do something? thanks /jon -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org