I'll correct myself here -- in my last email, I made the assumption that we were talking about bug reports that are properly filed with the correct project. I feel like that needed to be clarified based on Andrew's reply. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:33 AM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> That is kinda really actually interesting. So how long if you file a >> proper bug report would it perhaps take to get into the hands of the >> programmer >> > > With most open source projects, the bug reports go straight to the > interested devs. > > > >> and then sent down the pike as patched as in a new package? >> > > Depends on how much the programmers care, and how many people it impacts, > and how long it takes to code a fix. In some cases minutes, in some, the > bugs linger around for years because no one cares enough to devote the time > to fix it. > > > >> I was reading that with Arch it can happen within a week. That's one >> thing about Debian as I have started to perhaps understand a little more is >> time it may take to get bugs fixed. >> > > This is mostly due to the number of architectures Debian supports. The > fixes don't always take a long time, compiling and testing the fixes on > multiple architectures sometimes does. > > >> I do understand that Spam Assassin is a program not a part of Debian or >> Ubuntu in any way. >> >> [image: Emoji] - Happy New Year >> >> ------------------------------ >> From: ryan.coleman at cwis.biz >> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:28:38 -0600 >> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] SpamAssassin compiling error - any ideas? >> >> Unlikely. >> >> On Jan 2, 2015, at 11:19 AM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does this mean that possibly no one has actually ever compiled Spam >> Assassin on Ubuntu 14.04.1 before? >> >> [image: Emoji] - Happy New Year >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - >> Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > -- > Jeff Chapin > President, CedarLug, retired > President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" > President, UNI Scuba Club > Senator, NISG, retired > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150102/5ba6c58c/attachment.html>