On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:06, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > No, bugs in Debian should be reported through the Debian BTS. That, > incidentally, is what it's there for. > > See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/10/msg01235.html As a basic rule, yes. However, submitters should then not be surprised when nothing happens with their bugs, especially if it concerns a package (or set of packages) that already has a large number of bugs open and the team working on packaging has indicated in the past that they need help processing bugs. The KDE team tend to concentrate on packaging issues and probably things like segfaults, not upstream functionality problems. So, if, as a user, you care about seeing an issue resolved, the best course of action really is to submit the bug upstream first. It is of course perfectly OK to then file a bug in the Debian BTS with a link to the upstream bug report to let other Debian users know about the issue. (Or do it the other way around and tag the Debian bug appropriately after the bug has been forwarded upstream.) What I'm saying basically is: don't expect the Debian KDE team to forward functionality issues upstream, they just don't have the manpower for it.
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