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by chris_wot 3920 days ago
Ulrich Drepper strikes again: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12701

For a smart guy, when he's wrong he is completely wrong. And any good work he might have done is wiped out by his arrogance. Not to mention he prevented bugs from being fixed.

But here is my favourite bug that cannot be fixed:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650371

Basically, the number of steps on Gnome volume control can't be configurable because apparently there are no situations you would ever want to do that. Except for hardware setups that don't report back volume information...

2 comments

The worst part about people who respond to bug reports in that way is that for most people, it just intimidates you into thinking you are wrong, and stupid for even asking. It's like an amature trying to beat a lawyer in court, you can't win, even if you're right.
>It's like an amature trying to beat a lawyer in court

I see what you did there:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362178

:)

My favorite Drepper bug thread: strfry() gives skewed distributions https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4403
The following bug got changed from RESOLVED INVALID to RESOLVED FIXED.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10134