On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:31:26AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Kenneth Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org> writes: > > > I agree that this is a good practice. Unfortunately, you can't > > necessarily count on the Debian maintainer (even a good maintainer) to > > deal with the bug on your behalf. I always handle upstream bugs on > > behalf of my customers for my packages, but as a project we seem to have > > some internal disagreements on this subject and no solid policy besides. > > If a maintainer is not willing to be a maintainer, well, then, that's > a problem. It's not as simple as saying that these people are "not willing to be a maintainer". In my case, these were otherwise quite responsible maintainers who just didn't feel it was their responsibility to deal with upstream bugs. So, like I said, we have some internal disagreements on this subject, and we don't have a solid policy that says what we're supposed to do with upstream bugs. > If you want to file *both*, that's fine, but *still* file a Debian bug > for a Debian package. And make sure *both* bug reports contain > pointers to the other report, so that everyone can easily find all the > information. Yes, this is good advice under all circumstances. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
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