Re: File a bug against my own package?

[tony mancill <tony@mancill.com>]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:

> While testing a patch from upstream to fix a bug in my libxmltv-perl
> package, I discovered another bug related to the package version
> for libhtml-tableextract-perl (one XMLTV script requires 1.08, the
> Debian version of the package is 1.06-2).  I've filed a bug against
> libhtml-tableextract-perl requesting that the new upstream version be
> packaged.
>
> Should I file a bug against my own package to report the related
> problem, that libxmltv-perl should depend on libhtml-tableextract-perl
> (>=1.08-1), or should I just track this on my own?  I'm thinking it
> would be nice to have a changelog entry:
>
>    * Changed to depend on libhtml-tableextract-perl >=1.08 (closes: #nnn)
>
> but I'm not sure this is appropriate.

Ken,

I believe that filing a bug against your own package is appropriate,
especially when the bugreport might be useful to others.

Cheers,
tony

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