Fwd: The grep disaster

[php fan]

> I am sorry we cannot help you more in this list than what we already do
in Launchpad.

[Which is basically nothing]

Are you subtly implying that there's no point in writing to this mailing
list about an issue just because it is already tracked on Launchpad? As far
as I understand, Launchpad is the place where all bugs are tracked, no
matter how important; on the other hand, I would expect this list to be the
appropriate place for, among of course other things, discussing urgent
action to be taken about some critical issue that renders some core part of
the system completely unusable, for example. Like this one.

Regardless of the effort of fixing the bug, which I understand is a long
process and is tracked on Launchpad (where it seems that nothing is being
done and nobody cares, like "let's just wait until it's fixed [again]
upstream", but that's another story), is it that difficult to roll back the
package to a version that is not completely broken, and release an update
with it, until a fix is released which may be in ages??
Isn't that part of the job of a distribution's maintainers, and especially
of a team calling itself the "Quality" team, to take such kind of actions?

I may understand if you told me that even that is not as easy as it seems,
or if you argued about good reasons for not doing that. But instead nobody
seems to even consider that possibility; not only that, you keep replying
as if I hadn't even ever mentioned it.



2016-06-25 1:33 GMT+02:00 Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com>:

> PHP Fan:
> > No action has been taken to the present day to fix the issue.
>
> I am sorry we cannot help you more in this list than what we already do in
> Launchpad.
>
>
>