Armin Berres wrote:
This one definitely isn't useful
I disagree. Bug reports are very useful for other people besides the maintainers, not least other users searching for information on a problem. The Debian BTS is always my first stop when I encounter a bug in Debian.
You report so many KDE bugs -- what about forwarding them upstream at the same time?
I usually do this, as you can easily check. The exceptions are when I'm not sure whether it is an upstream issue. I'll do it for this one too, and if you just wanted to suggest that I do so then a polite message would have sufficed.
KDE 4 is still full of bugs ATM -- what do you think would happen if users report all and every KDE 4 bug which is no packaging issue in our BTS?
Well then I would be a fool to do the opposite, wouldn't I?Seriously though: for a start, users would be able to get a good overview of potential problems to look out for, for example when considering whether to try the packages at all. Especially if the bugs were marked "forwarded" (which I usually do). I don't see any negative effects. The BTS is not only for packaging bugs.
Thanks for considering this when you report the next bug.
If you want to tell me to stop reporting bugs then just say so, and we can argue about that instead.
Cheers, Marcus