Re: How you can help with upstream issues
Hi Martin,
Le 12 décembre 2024 11:02:08 GMT+01:00, Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> a écrit :
>Hi!
>
>I appreciate that people test the new Plasma 6 and report issues.
>
>Often enough an issue reported is actually an upstream issue. It might be
>a changed behavior compared to Plasma 5 and so on. If it is an upstream
>issue you can help tremendously by checking whether it is reported on
>https://bugs.kde.org and if it is not report it there.
Yes and no. 🙂
While it's true that the team is small and the KDE package set is big the general recommendation is to open bugs in the Debian bug tracker first.
Upstream tends to be overworked too and triaging bugs is not fun for most people.
For example we get negative to hostile feedback from upstream when our users report bugs… that have already been fixed upstream !
So I strongly advise to only report bugs upstream directly :
- If the version of the Debian package matches the latest upstream release. That's currently the case for Plasma and kf6 in trixie/unstable but would never be the case for stable.
- Once you've double checked that no existing bug report in bugs.kde.org already describes the issue you're having.
On a side note any kind of help in triaging, reproducing, adding information or closing Debian KDE bugs is highly welcome.
https://wiki.debian.org/BugTriage has a lot of useful information on how help.
Thanks & happy bug traging,
--
Aurélien
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