[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#832187: closed by Ole Streicher <olebole at debian.org> (Closing resolved bug)

[Ben Finney]

On 20-Jun-2017, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the astropy-utils package:
> 
> #832187: astropy-utils: Section should not be “python”
> 
> It has been closed by Ole Streicher <olebole at debian.org>.

Thank you for addressing this bug report.

> From: Ole Streicher <olebole at debian.org>
> Subject: Closing resolved bug
>
> […]
> 
> @Ben: I am however wondering why you did not issue the override bug
> yourself (and put the maintainer into Cc:)? It was already changed
> in d/control since ages.

I do not arrogate to myself the power to unilaterally decide the
correct Section value, so it's not my place to submit the override
request.

That must be done only when the package maintainer has decided what is
correct. The maintainer can decide a Section that is different from
what I suggested, and so a pre-emptive override request would be even
more annoying to the maintainer.

So, that's why I request a maintainer should do that unilateral
action.

> Writing a bug "please write another bug, wait until it is closed, and
> then close this bug" seems to me a quite useless overhead.

I think we can both look forward to a time when a change to
‘debian/control’ is enough to change the metadata of the package.
Until that happy day, multiple changes must be coordinated.

Thank you for maintaining the package.

-- 
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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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