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Re: Questions about gnu.org versus debian bugs.



On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 20:35 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2005 7:49 pm, Ewa Matejska wrote:
> > I'm new to filing bugs with Debian and I want to make sure to do this
> > right.  If I file a bug against gnu.org (gdb),
> 
> It might just be me, but gdb gets blamed for a host of bugs that are actually 
> in the program or build environment of the project under test. I'd be VERY 
> sure before posting a bug against gdb.
> 
> > is it OK for me to file 
> > the same bug against the relevant Debian package as well?
> 
> I wouldn't think there's much point in doing both.

It's useful if upstream has a slow release schedule or you want a fix
backported to older versions in Debian. But then you should also
probably include the patch yourself.
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net>

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