Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> writes:
> 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.
For my packages, I would like people to report upstream bugs with
reportbug. I'll forward them upstream if need be. For most of the
packages that I maintain, I have a very close relationship with upstream
and have a lot of communication channels available to me that the bug
reporter probably wouldn't have.
For example, if someone reports a bug in OpenAFS, I usually talk it over
with the developers on Zephyr before forwarding it to the upstream bug
database.
I think this is a case where very large packages like Firefox or
OpenOffice may have different needs than the majority of packages in
Debian.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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