Re: Bug reports and fixes should be reported upstream
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
[snip]
> [General complaint: I maintain several packages like
> man, man-pages, kbd, mount, fdisk, perhaps patch -
> and hope to hear about problems. Unreported problems
> will not be fixed, and if they are only fixed in RedHat
> or Debian or so, they will have to be fixed again when
> a new version is released.
> * I am not willing to spend my time searching bug archives
> * before releasing new versions, or looking at RedHat rpm's
> * to see whether there are any patches, and if so, to guess
> * what purpose these patches might have.]
>
> His complaint is valid. Upstream developers should not have to
> browse Debian bug lists. The Debian maintainer of the package
> should forward bugs and fixes to the upstream maintainer. I
> assume most do this, but it may be good to remind everyone
> of this.
Thanks for pointing that out! I hope that this is current practise, but
it's definitely worth being added to our Policy Manual. I'll include this
somewhere.
Thanks,
Chris
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