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Re: Forwarded Bug Reports



On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:57:44PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:08:49PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> >      If I fix a bug in my package, and send the patch upstream, should
> > the bug be marked "forwarded", or should "forwarded" be reserved for
> > bugs that are waiting for upstream to fix?
> 
> If you've informed the upstream about the bug, it's forwarded and you
> can/should mark it as such. IMHO.

I always just close such bugs.  They're fixed.  If the next upstream
version doesn't contain my patch, it'll still be in the Debian diffs,
and I can nag them again.

Richard Braakman



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