Hi, * Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [2005-11-08 16:18]: > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:53 -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > > Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't > > reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer > > to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, > > or is that considered obnoxious? > > Doesn't reportbug already check to see whether there is a newer > version in Debian (at least in the branches w/in your sources.list)? Yes but sometimes upstream provides a newer version which is not yet packaged so if the bug is fixed in it it can be tagged fixed-upstream. Regards Nico -- Nico Golde - JAB: nion@jabber.ccc.de | GPG: 0x73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org Forget about that mouse with 3/4/5 buttons - gimme a keyboard with 103/104/105 keys!
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