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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150102/d661e4b0/attachment.html>