Third contact attempt for AWOL? xfig maintainer: Ngo Than

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Nov 14 22:44:30 UTC 2007


On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:35:11PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> As outlined here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers
> 
> I would like to declare the xfig maintainer AWOL and take over xfig, does 
> anyone know a better way then email to contact Than?
> 
> I've been trying to get this bug (with known and included fix) fixed for 
> ages, yet it is still present in F-8 (and rawhide):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=201992
> 
> Notice that this bug was filed on 2006-08-10 and a fix was known on 
> 2006-11-17, after this I've tried to contact Than once more on 2007-08-17 
>  and 2007-11-04, and now a last attempt at 2007-11-14

Adding -fno-strict-aliasing without finding out what is the problem
and really fixing the aliasing violation (or in the rare case this
turns out to be a compiler bug coming up with small self-contained
testcase that proves it) is not fixing a bug, merely working around it.

	Jakub




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