Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Darren O. Benham wrote:

> > Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be 
> > addressed.  Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if they're 
> > involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are supposed to 
> > be forwarded upstream (with a patch if one is available).  That is part of 
> > the Debian philosophy.

Perhaps we should open the Bug System to upstream maintainers by adding a
flag to every package. If this flag is on, reports are automatically
forwarded to a given upstream email address. I'm sure many upstream
authors would ask this flag to be enabled for their packages, even if this
means a small percentage of received bugs happen to be packaging bugs
which would not have to be forwarded in normal circumstances.

Thanks.

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