Joerg Schilling schilling@fokus.gmd.de wrote:
The Debian Bug list is badly managed (at least for cdrecord) and it does not help to keep cdrecord bug-free. Tehy never removed remarks for bugs that never exists but are a result of missunderstood or unread documentation.
Did they accept your claim that these bugs "never exist[ed]"? If so, have you asked the maintainer andersee@debian.org why the bugs are not closed? If there was no answer, have you asked debian-qa about it? Now, maybe I'm missing something, but the BTS doesn't show any entries from you on any of the important bugs, nor on a random sample of normal bugs.
Also, I note that there are bugs filed against your documentation. Maybe it is not as good as it could be. Have you considered getting someone else to review and improve it?
I send him a description for an algorithm that fiyes the problem and would allow somebody who knows the program to create a fix in less than 3 hours.
We're only getting one side of the story here, I know, but what was the response? You've already hinted elsewhere that the fix would take severe internal restructuring. I assume other things would break, at least temporarily.