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Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes



On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:06:42 -0400, Alexandre Rebert
<alexandre.rebert@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Marc Haber
><mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>> Additionally, I guess that the vast majority of crahes you have found
>> will be upstream bugs which the Debian maintainer would have to
>> forward upstream. Will you take efforts to report these bugs to
>> upstream as well?
>
>Yes. Bugs will be reported upstream first. After two weeks, we will
>re-ran the crashes on the latest packages from Debian unstable.
>Hopefully, the upstream developers will had time to update packages
>with a fix. If the crash still exists, then we will go ahead and
>submit a report to the Debian BTS.

I understand. But two weeks might be a bit too short for the majority
of those crashes. Many upstream authors don't get paid for working on
their software.

Thanks for your verbose answer.

Greetings
Marc
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