Re: sending to guix-patches does not seem to show?

[Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

Hi Andy,
Hi Artyom,

> sending a patch to guix-patches does not seem to result in the
> creation of a new debbugs issue

> I'm having the same issue

You are not alone. [1][2]

Please note that I do not maintain Debbugs.  I would like to, but lost
an internal appeals process, which was non-public. I wrote:

> The Debbugs system is unmaintainble. FSF is unable and unwilling (!)
> to publish a code base for the version deployed on
> debbugs.gnu.org. I'd call that a disaster for a free-software advocacy
> group.
>
> Without a code base, no one can propose patches. It's absurd for
> anyone working with free software. On a practical level, it is
> impossible to fix or discuss issues like these. [3]

To preserve at least some privacy and perhaps goodwill, I'll paraphrase
the response. I believe it correctly reflects the applicable GPL-2
license [4] yet somehow missed my point:

    FSF did not write Debbugs. FSF does not distribute any version of
    it. No one who uses a program and patches it has an obligation to
    release the private modified version.

I hope that publishing the information did not violate anyone's privacy
expectations.  The Guix community deserved to know.

To sum it up, there are capable people who work on Debbugs. It's just
not me.  Please direct comments about Debbugs to the help-debbugs
mailing list. [5] With some luck, your issue will be addressed shortly.
Maybe it was fixed already. Thank you!

Kind regards
Felix

[1] https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-debbugs/2024-02/msg00028.html
[2] https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-debbugs/2024-02/msg00030.html
[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-02/msg00187.html
[4] https://codeberg.org/lechner/debbugs-gnu/src/branch/history/COPYING
[5] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-debbugs