Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920
[note: sent to d-d only]
I demand that Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton may or may not have written...
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:04:45PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote:
>> * Matthew Garrett [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:50:56 +0000]:
[snip]
>>> It's the job of either the bug submitter or (more usually) the Debian
>>> maintainer to contact upstream to make sure that they're aware of the
>>> bug. It is *not* the upstream maintainer's job to examine Debian's bug
>>> database.
> that distinction isn't made clear: it's only if people think about it that
> they will realise that they are supposed to report debian-specific
> packaging bugs to the debian bugs database and package-specific bugs to
> whatever upstream thingy they can find. _if_ they can find it.
Not necessarily. The bug could be due to a Debian-specific change in the
package and, for whatever reason, $USER may be unable to determine this - in
that case, the best place for the bug report is the Debian BTS.
> and even if some people do think, there's lots that won't.
Then there are the people who send bug reports upstream anyway, even for
distribution-specific problems...
[snip]
>>> "If you report a bug to Debian and nobody forwards it, we know nothing
>>> about it".
>> All correct. Thanks, Matthew. I'll just note that the Debian KDE packages
>> receive an incredible amount of bug reports, and that we're understaffed
>> to forward all of them to KDE upstream.
> that's why one of my recommendations was to consider putting, into certain
> key very popular packages, a means to either transfer the bug to upstream
> (via some mad notional XMLeey are pee cee-ey common API) or to simply put
> into reportbug a list of packages for which reporting should be given
> special messages:
[snip]
I can imagine a situation in which, due to a lot of packaging-specific bugs
being sent upstream, upstream starts closing bugs, marking them with
something like "report via your distribution's BTS" ;-\
> other possibilities:
> 1) add into the dpkg thingy an upstream URL where bugs can be reported:
> UpstreamBugs: http://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi (whatever)
> if you encounter a bug in kde.
> please report it here because otherwise nobody
> will fix it, thank you.
> .
ITYM "... because otherwise your bug report will be ignored".
[snip]
> this would save maintainers a boat-load of time.
Maybe...
> 2) against the list of "UpstreamBugs", on bugs.debian.org, email
> received automatically notifies the sender of the above info.
That /may/ be useful, but it's also another potential black hole, whether the
messages are sent to a person ("not enough time") or to a list. And, as we
know, lists can easily become SEP generators: just add one 9V battery... :-)
[snip]
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