On Saturday 11 April 2009 19:21:11 Arthur Marsh wrote: > [As an aside, HPLIP *DOES NOT EVEN HAVE ANY MAILING LISTS* and this was > a barrier against finding and reporting bugs upstream against HPLIP )-:.] Thanks Arthur, This is a very good point. What I have found works best is when upstream subscribe to the Debian package tracking system (kmymoney2, kile, ...) and then forward PTS email into their upstream -dev mailing list. http://bugs.debian.org/523477 is a great example. Debian users get a reasonable response turn around and bug visibility is apparent to everyone at the right time. Of course getting upstream to subscribe to a number of sources is always a challenge, but presumably they are happy with subscribing to high s/n traffic about their package. I know maduck is doing some work to try and sync bug reports/ patches across distributions. Mark
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