Bug#402242: closed by James Vega <jamessan at debian.org> (Workaround available)

[James Vega]

reopen 402242
tag 402242 wontfix
thanks

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 01:22:04PM -0700, Alvaro Martinez Echevarria wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, James Vega wrote:
> 
> > No one *needs* to do anything.  If you want to make sure it gets fixed
> > to your satisfaction, send a patch and I'll gladly forward it upstream
> > to Bram for his consideration.
> > Bram hasn't expressed any interest in fixing syntax highlighting of what
> > he considers a bug in GCC so I doubt you'll get him to implement the
> > feature (yes, feature not bug fix since it's a GCC extension).
> 
> OK, fair enough, you don't *need* to do anything. My poorly worded
> point was that in my interpretation, closing this bug is at odds
> with what I know about the Debian BTS. Let me quote: "
> 
> There's no doubt this is a bug in vim; vim doesn't get to decide
> if an extension to gcc is actually a bug.

It's not a matter of whether the extension to GCC is a bug.  It's the
simple fact that it's a GCC extension and not standard C.  This is
c.vim, not gcc.vim so Bram has chosen not to implement a feature
request because he doesn't consider it valid or worth the time or
whatever.

> Why Bram would think
> that totally escapes me, but in any case his personal preferences
> don't determine what's a bug in gcc. He just determines what he
> wants to fix in vim.

And what feature requests he wishes to implement.

> So if you are not willing to fix this for whatever reason
> (because it won't be accepted upstream, or because you don't know
> how to, or because it would break something else, or whatever),
> that's your responsibility and your prerrogative, and that's
> fine. But don't "close" the bug (which means the bug isn't there
> anymore). Mark it as wontfix with an explanation, or whatever
> else you do these days.

True.  I should be using the BTS' views to ignore wontfix bugs instead
of closing them to remove them from my radar.  Reopened and marked
wontfix.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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