[Mageia-sysadm] [forums-discuss] Re: updating sysadmin privileges in forum config

Mon Mar 26 20:59:47 CEST 2012

On 26/03/12 19:21, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2012/3/26 Marja van Waes<marja11 at xs4all.nl>:
+>> Wel, it helps if people file a bug report when they suffer from those
+>> "normal" bugs. We don't vote for bugs in our bugzilla, but the more users
+>> report a bug, the more chance it gets fixed.
+>>
+>> But even then nothing is guaranteed, because the people who fix bugs , push
+>> upgrades, etc. here are human beings, with limited time, capabilities, and
+>> so on, even security fixes sometimes don't get done fast, in spite of
+>> everyone doing his best.
+>>
+>> We have a bug report (#40) about an upgrade that would fix several bugs,
+>> including several security fixes, some of the last were already mentioned in
+>> the report in august last year by the upstream maintainer.
+>>
+>> Having the report there helps as a reminder and I'm sure upgrading will be
+>> done, but the report also shows that it is good to have limited expectations
+>> about how fast we are.
+> As explained several times, you can't mix bug fixing for mageia
+> packages with bug fixing of phpBB. First we do not have a phpBB3
+> package. Second:  updating the couple of hundred files with all
+> 100+something bugs would be some work. Third: if we would have a
+> package, still it needs to be unpacked and all the bug fixes must be
+> checked and integrated into the single files and then packed. This way
+> or that, all this only in case we still trust the "zip from some
+> website" (as Michael put it).
+Thanks wobo, sometimes I miss mails or they don't sink in when I read 
+them, so thanks for taking the time to explain it again :)
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