Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> What is the generally accepted way within the "Debian culture" to deal
> with such reports? Do I close the bug right away? Do I downgrade it?
> Do I reassign it (in this case to gstreamer)?
You can reassign it with the priority and bug title changed to whatever you
find correct. It is the "helpful samaritan" thing to do, since you have
actually figured out what was really breaking.
Or you can simply close it politely (mail the explanation to -done), and be
done with that. It is quite acceptable as well, especially if you didn't
have time to track down just what other package was really broken in the
first place.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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