Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

John Goerzen dijo [Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 05:08:26PM -0600]:
> So let's run out your scenario a bit: upstream asks user to test with  
> upstream version X.  Bug isn't reproducible by maintainer.  Does the  
> maintainer now have to provide user with binaries?  This gets  
> complicated when packaging isn't ready for the version in question, when  
> the user has an arch the maintainer doesn't, etc.

Often, users with not-so-mainstream architectures will have better
technical understanding and more ability to help following up a
report.