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Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes



Quoting Charles Plessy (2013-06-28 00:07:55)
> Le Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:28:15AM -0400, Alexandre Rebert a écrit :
> > 
> > > I wished the respective report would have been sent to the 
> > > upstream developers, not to Debian. We could have been a second 
> > > resort when upstream does not react to the reports (not unlikely, 
> > > admittedly). Now, the Debian maintainer sees the findings two 
> > > weeks before the bug is made public. I do not feel this to be 
> > > right.
> > 
> > I agree with you that it would have been best to contact upstream 
> > developers instead of package maintainers. I couldn't find a tool 
> > listing upstream developers for a given package however, and that's 
> > why we contacted package maintainers instead.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> while the coverage is still tiny, there is an effort to collect 
> contact addresses listed in the debian/upstream file in the VCS where 
> our source packages are maintained.
> 
>     http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/table/contact
> 
> In some cases, it is a valid email address.  Perhaps you can give it a 
> priority ?

Perhaps it makes sense for that project to fetch data from DEP5 when 
used (and treat it as a bug against the package if not up-to-date!)?


 - Jonas

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