[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#450788: Bug#441146:

[Michael Meskes]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:08:44PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > I don't care which piece of the software broke,
> 
> thank you for letting me know. however, how about actually letting the
> *maintainer* of the package decide that?

Decide what? Which software is broken? Or whether this is a bug? 

> > the fact in the matter is that the virtualbox-ose module is not build by
> > linux-modules-extra.
> 
> wrong. what matters is the reason why it is not build.

Of course the reason matters, but the bug simply was about a binary
package not being available. IMO the only way to fix this is to deliver
the package. 

> #441146 is about including it into the conglomeration package and thus a
> bug in linux-modules-extra-2.6.
> 
> the *new* issue is, unrelated to #441146, that virtualbox-ose modules do
> no longer build since 1.5.2, and thus a bug in virtualbox-ose-source.
> 
> it is the task of the module-source maintainer to ship a working
> module-source package, not the conglomeration package maintainer;
> therefore cloning, reassigned and closed the approriate bug.

Fine with me. I don't mind having this bug reassigned. To be honest in
my opinion we should have two open bugs, one against
virtualbox-ose-source and one against linux-modules-extra-2.6 with the
latter one being blocked by the former. I still disagree with you guys
closing the bug though, though.

Just for the record we should note that this bug
had neither been reported against virtualbox-ose-source nor even
communicated with the package maintainers. But then, given that you are
part of the maintainer team for virtualbox-ose-source as well as
the linux-modules-extra-2.6 team (or even its sole maintainer, too lazy
to check) you might consier this enough information.

> extremely sophisticated way to kill peoples time.

No, just a try to keep our bug tracking system as open and informative
as it can be. 

Michael
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