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Re: Debian bugs belong to the Debian BTS



On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:26:39PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:42:09AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
[snip]
> > No, upstream bugs are bugs in Debian too. There's no reason to "hide"
> > them. 
> 
> I know this is different from the given situation, but the question is
> just as valid...
> 
> Is it OK to ask submitters to file wishlist bugs for new features with
> upstream? As maintainer of spamassassin, I have generally closed bugs
> for new rule requests (asking users to submit upstream), simply
> because the number of new rule requests could get to be quite massive;
> these requests clutter the BTS, and generally aren't worth the effort
> to forward to upstream bugzilla. (If someone created a nice script to
[snip]

FWIW, I usually file SA rule requests upstream since it eliminates the
overhead of the DD passing it on, which reduces the delay. Other bugs I
file on BTS since it may or may not be a Debian-specific bug.


T

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