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> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 94 12:06:51 MST > From: Bryan Ford <baford@schirf.cs.utah.edu> > > > I've sent messages (including bug _fixes_, not just reports) > to bug-gnu-utils several times before, and have never gotten any > kind of response whatsoever - my mail just disappears into the void. :-) > >Yeah, I've been known to not respond very quickly, or sometimes at >all, depending on (among other things) the severity of the problem, >whether it's been reported before, whether I've responded to another >posting of the same bug on bug-gnu-utils already, whether I've got a >fix, how hard it looks to fix, how informative the bug report is, how >swamped I feel with work I'm doing for Cygnus customers, what I had >for breakfast, ... I'm not especially organized or disciplined when >it comes to dealing with mail. > >But I'll usually keep the message around unless I've got some reason >for thinking I won't need it -- for example, it describes a problem I >think is already fixed, or something -- and I don't see your message >among my saved mail. How long ago was it? Is the problem fixed in >binutils-2.5.2? If it isn't, please resend it to me personally. Actually, the messages I'm referring to weren't about GAS; they concerned other GNU utilities whose maintainers also supposedly live on the bug-gnu-utils list. In particular, a while ago I sent in a patch to the 'patch' program that makes it work with binary files and binary diffs (diff -a). Also, I sent in a patch to autoconf-1.11 around the time when that was the most recent version, to add a couple new features needed by the new Mach build environment. Neither of these were bug "reports" needing hunting down and fixing; they were actual patches that should only need a brief look-through and a merge. But as I said I never got any response to either. Anyway, I expect neither of those are your problems; but it would be helpful if _somebody_ was handling those other utilities. :-) Bryan