Re: Heisenbugs (was: Filing bugs with upstream)

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Frank Küster wrote:
> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> schrieb:
> 
> >     Let the maintainer decide what to do (i.e. close it if it is a
> >     Heisenbug, fix it and pass a patch upstream or pass it upstream,
> >     maybe by filing an upstream bug as well).
> 
> I probably understand what you mean, but what exactly is a Heisenbug?

A bug which is not a bug.

A good description is probably found in the Jargon file:
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html

Regards,

	Joey

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