Re: Debian bugs belong to the Debian BTS
Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> said:
> Moin Adrian!
> Adrian Bunk schrieb am Wednesday, den 22. October 2003:
>
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> it's your responsibility as a Debian maintainer to handle bugs in your
>> packages.
>>
>> It's _not_ OK to tell the users of your packages to only file them
>> upstream.
>>
>> It's _not_ OK to simply close a bug with a message "it might be fixed in
>> the latest upstream" (but if you can't reproduce it, it's OK to ask the
>> submitter whether he can still reprooduce it).
>
> Oha, would it appease you if you ask the submitters first, wait two
> weeks and close them then? In this case I have a script to automate the
> work in such cases.
I don't get your point: in which sense does it help to use a script in
this case?
The debian developers manual is very documented about the BTS
usage. Please refers to the section that deals with unreproducible
bugs.
--
Mathieu Roy
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