Re: A question about patches for upstream
On Sun, 4 May 2014 16:33:08 +0200, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 09:14:50AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> >I don't think this is very clear from the guidelines, and I have had mixed
>> >responses from maintainers when reporting upstream bugs, varying from "thanks,
>> >I'll report it upstream for you" to "stop wasting my time, report it upstream
>> >instead".
>>
>> While I find the latter reaction a nuisance, I understand that
>> maintainers of huge packages with an understaffed maintainer team tend
>> to do that. The situation is less than nice, but I'd rather see
>> maintainers' time spent on packaging in those cases.
>
>Yes, I can understand that maintainers set their priorities; I do that myself
>as well. The problem I have with the latter is not that I should report it
>upstream (it's not ideal, but understandable), but the "stop wasting my time"
>part, which implies that I'm wrong to send reports about upstream bugs to
>Debian maintainers in general.
I understand. Unfortunately, Debian has a number of developers that
are quite impolite while doing their work. In a real company, such
people would be confined to their development work and kept away from
paying customers. A win-win situation for all parties, but Debian
cannot afford that, unfortunately.
Greetings
Marc
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