Re: Bug 99648

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:58, Luis Villa wrote:
> Sorry about the delay in my response; life has been a bit hectic lately.
> I definitely do want people to post this kind of question to bugsquad,
> so I'm very sorry I haven't been active in responding and encouraging
> your behavior, Elijah.
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:36, Elijah P Newren wrote:
> > Ben Hill filed bug 99648.  I resolved it as a duplicate of 65109.  He has
> > since filed more comments and asked a few questions.  He seems helpful
> > and is quite quick to respond.  I don't think I have a complete answer,
> > and was hoping some of you could take a look--both to make sure I marked
> > everything correctly and answer any possibly unanswered or not completely
> > answered questions.  Most of the information is in the actual report in
> > bug 99648.
> 
> Read them.

Eep! Note that this was the past tense, like, 'I've read them now',
instead of the imperative. Sorry about the confusion.

Luis

> > Also, note that bug 65109 (the bug which 99648 was marked as a
> > duplicate of) has the OS marked as Solaris.  Yet I'm guessing that
> > most of the duplicates are from Linux and at least one specifically
> > was FreeBSD.  
> 
> It should be updated to 'all'. Note that in many cases OS is not a field
> that maintainers actively update, so it is best to go with what you see
> in the duplicates instead of what you see in the OS field. This is
> particularly true if the filer is from sun.com, since they are usually
> fairly religious about setting OS, which will tend to suggest things are
> always Solaris-related when that is not always the case.
> 
> > There are probably other things that need updating in
> > 65109 (such as version number) as well,
> 
> It appears that this is specific to older pango- newer pango needs a
> different file, which suggests that if the version is updated (it may
> need to be, I haven't read all the dups) the bug subject should be
> changed as well.
> 
> >  but since I feel I don't understand the fonts issues and/or pango, I
> >  thought this might be a job for someone else.  (Or maybe for someone
> >  else to tell me what else needs to be done and why?)
> 
> I'd suggest that (based on Alex L.'s comment) this is effectively
> WONTFIXed by the maintainers, and should be marked as such. Personally,
> this bugs me- I may send some email later today about the 'it is the
> distro's problem', as I believe we should make it as easy as possible to
> compile a working system more or less from scratch. But that's a larger
> issue than this specific bug.
> 
> Luis
> 
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