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Re: Filing bugs with upstream



Kenneth Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

I believe we have a policy that all maintainers are supposed to either
fix bugs, report them upstream, or ask for help, without being rigid
about that list and allowing room for flexibility in particular
cases. 

Thomas



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