Comment by sugarpimpdorsey
7 hours ago
How would you like to be the guy that reported this 10 years ago and had the bug closed on some technicality:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806960
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are closed as WONTFIX.
It's not a technicality, the package was removed from Debian so there was no reason to keep the bug report open. And it was reopened by a debian developer when the package was reintroduced a year later.
That's not an excuse for why it wasn't dealt with until now but what you are suggesting didn't happen.