Shining more light on the problem

Shining more light on the problem

I would like to comment in defense of Jeff Johnson. I think he was unnecessarily vilified

As the original submitter of the bug mentioned, I feel I should comment here. I gave Jeff the benefit of the doubt for a long time, until he proved utterly unable to listen to reason. You can bleat "Show me the code" as much as you like (and I'd even agree with you -- were it more of a problem for me, I'd almost certainly have written a patch myself by now), but a maintainer of a package as significant as RPM simply has to listen to bug reports from users, and take some appropriate action. Denying that the bug even exists is simply not acceptable.