In <[🔎] 200904090014.01454.modestas@vainius.eu>, Modestas Vainius wrote: >On 2009 m. April 8 d., Wednesday 23:59:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Then file the bug at the Debian BTS and the maintainer will forward it >> to upstream if necessary. (Of course, only to this is you are willing >> to work with the maintainer to correctly resolve the bug.) > >WRONG thinking. File a bug to Debian BTS only if you believe (and can > justify it) that it is Debian-specific. I'm not talking about this bug in > particular, but in general. DO NOT report upstream bugs to Debian BTS > (with the exception of grave or more serious). No, you are wrong. A bug in a package (caused by upstream or not) is a bug in Debian. Bugs in Debian are, according to "The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ" (an official document prepared by Debian) to be filed on the Debian BTS. According to the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting (again, an official document prepared by Debian) if you file a bug on the BTS you should not file the bug upstream, but let the maintainer do it. IMO: Even if you *know* the bug is a problem caused by upstream, you should probably file it on the Debian BTS if it affects Debian. This way it will show up in automated reports for the status of bugs in stable/testing/unstable and persons watching the package through PTS will be notified. Bug reports are actually one of the main metrics used to determine when a new version of Debian is ready to be released -- if there are bugs that affect Debian but are only reported upstream, that metric reduces in value. Yes, you shouldn't copy upstream reports into the Debian BTS, but if you are running Debian and encounter the bug it should be on the Debian BTS (even if it needs to be somewhere else, too.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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