Bug#189157: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting: It is not clear how/if bugs are forwarded upstream
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Remco Seesink wrote:
> > I think forwarding of bugs is not mentioned in Bugs/Reporting but
> > Bugs/Developer, because you should _not_ do it. It's the task of
> > the maintainer to decide this.
>
> As a user and not developer, I did not read Bugs/Developer. How could I
> have know not to report bugs upstream?
Because... nobody tells you to? :)
> What to do as a reporter when the maintainer doens't forward a bug, and
> it's clearly an upstream problem? Maybe this shouldn't be mentioned on
> www.debian.org, but I am curious anyway.
You can always send mail to <bugnumber>@bugs.debian.org asking for it to be
examined and forwarded. This will be seen by the maintainer of the package
and by other developers who track bugs. If this doesn't produce any result,
you can send mail to debian-devel@lists.debian.org asking for the bug to be
looked at.
I agree that we could polish up the docs about these issues.
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