[Pkg-mono-devel] Re: libgdiplus maintainer not closing bugs

[Russell Coker]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 22:54, William Ballard <40521.nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
> The last time this happened and I reported some bugs they kept saying
> "bugs not in this package, it's in other package!" and I never could
> understand what was broken then either.

The user is not required to know the exact cause of their bug.  If they file a 
bug report against the most likely package then that's OK, the maintainer can 
reassign it to another package if necessary.

If a maintainer does not close a bug after fixing it, it's OK for the person 
who reported it (or any other person who knows the situation) to close it on 
their behalf.  There are many good users who close their own bugs if the 
maintainer forgets to without whining about it.

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