Well, the maintainer is actually chatting with me and we have reached the conclusion that my Ubuntu environment can't really leverage his work - this is more of a reinstall the system with Debian to make it go kind of thing... Coming at it from the Ubuntu perspective is probably why I didn't find it.
> This is quite common for volunteer devs as they don't necessarily have the time or want to create multiple logins for each distro in order to update distro bug reports. That should in theory be the job of the package maintainer for that specific distro.
Yeah, I totally get the developers' stance and agree that there should be package maintainers - not him - solving these things.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 28, @12:58PM
Well, the maintainer is actually chatting with me and we have reached the conclusion that my Ubuntu environment can't really leverage his work - this is more of a reinstall the system with Debian to make it go kind of thing... Coming at it from the Ubuntu perspective is probably why I didn't find it.
> This is quite common for volunteer devs as they don't necessarily have the time or want to create multiple logins for each distro in order to update distro bug reports. That should in theory be the job of the package maintainer for that specific distro.
Yeah, I totally get the developers' stance and agree that there should be package maintainers - not him - solving these things.
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