[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Re: Bug#338743: [bluez-utils #338743] More info

[Bdale Garbee]

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 21:49 +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:

> > You are supposed to use the real MAKEDEV, not the one in experimental.
> 
> reportedly, unstable (2.3.1-79) "MAKEDEV bluetooth" works as expected.
> 
> Indeed this still holds as a bug for both bluez-utils and experimental MAKEDEV,
> but frankly, as long as I report version of packages I'm using, if I'm running 
> experimental and if I'm supposed to, is not your business.

Well, actually, it might be.

If a bug exists in a package version in experimental but not in that
package's version in unstable, then the maintainer of that package
(which is me for makedev) probably wants to know about it, but it is not
relevant to the maintainer of any other package, and many would prefer
not to be bothered hearing about it.  Part of the definition of
experimental in Debian is that it may break the rest of your system to
use things that are in experimental.

If you plan to file a bug against the makedev package, please make sure
to specify correctly the version that you're running in the bug
submission, so that I don't waste time chasing ghosts.  Suggested
patches to improve makedev are always welcome...

Bdale