Re: Where to submit a bug?
On Friday 15 October 2004 01.21, Craig Small wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:50:22PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > My experience is that if you can take the time to track down the
> > upstream bug tracking system and learn how it is used, it is much
> > better (== you get more reactions) to report a bug upstream for most
> > packages, if it's clearly an upstream bug.
>
> I disagree, it is very,very dependent on the project or package you are
> talking about. At the very least the Debian package maintainer should
> be able to understand their upstream bug systems.
>
> There is also, for some projects, a concept of goodwill that can extend
> to bugs from Debian. I find some upstreams are more willing to look
> a bugs from me (as the packager for Debian of their program). Of course
> you don't get this by default, you need to earn it but it can help.
Problem: as user of a random package X, I'd need to judge somehow if the
packager works well with upstream or not. The number of 'upstream' tagged
bugs, or untagged upstream bugs, or forwarded bugs etc. can give a hint,
but it's not clear.
> The lesson there is get along with your upstream developers, it can
> pay off in future.
Fully agree.
greetings
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