[Yaird-devel] Bug#477054: yaird: Generates invalid initrds which reference /lib/i686/mov/

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:45:17PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:14:06AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:08:40PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:40:39PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 06:37:52PM +0100, Nick Burch wrote:
> >> >  
> >> > > The initrds were all generated using update-initramfs
> >> > 
> >> > ,----[ dpkg -S update-initramfs ]
> >> > | initramfs-tools: /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
> >> > | initramfs-tools: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs
> >> > | initramfs-tools: /usr/share/man/man5/update-initramfs.conf.5.gz
> >> > | initramfs-tools: /usr/share/man/man8/update-initramfs.8.gz
> >> > `----
> >> > 
> >> > I think your bug belongs to the initramfs-tools package, if you 
> >> > don't mind I will reassign (that is if the BTS allows a 
> >> > non-maintainer to do this).
> 
> I believe it is not "forbidden" for non-maintainers to reassign 
> packages.  And you might be right in this case.
 
Good (as long as non-maintainers don't abuse this openness)

> Not all package maintainers treat bugreports and bugreporters equally 
> nice, however, so reassigning a bugreport raise the risk of not being 
> treated nicely.

:/

> Also, the act of reassigning can itself be seen as provocation to some 
> package maintainers.

:/

> Therefore I recommend to be extra cautious and only reasssing if certain 
> that the bug can only be tied to the new package (neither tied to the 
> old package nor to multiple bugs needing a fork of the bugreport).
> 
> So when you only _might_ be right, it was sane to not do it :-)

As you might have noticed, I didn't actually take any action as I was 
awaiting for some reaction from the bugreporter. Unfortunately I forgot 
the reporter is not automatically subscribed to the bug and I didn't 
include submiter@ in my reply ...

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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