I'm not a Debian developer. But based on my knowledge, bug fix in Debian is not tied to the upstream package.
Because the bug appear in Debian, it will be fixed in Debian. If the bug is global in nature, eg. occurs in other distro as well, then the Debian developer will forward the fix to upstream.
This scenario has happen many times.
So the answer would be:
- No 1 is the most common way of Debian
- No 2 is always used if the bug is affecting other distribution
- I've never seen No 3 being practiced in Debian
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Mario Daniel Carugno
<carugnom@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there. I want to know how the cooperative model of software enhancements and corrections works in debian, so
here i go with some (stupid) questions:
Supose developer D maintains the package P, whose original author is A.
Then a user reports a bug in P.
So D reproduces it and notes that it's an error to be fixed in the program's source code.
In that situation, what D have to do ?
1) Fix the source, rebuild P and upload it to SID ?
2) Do (1) and then send a patch to A ?
3) Send a patch to A, then wait for A to publish the new fixed version of the program, and then build P from his sources ?
Further references are welcome and appreciated.
Thanks
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Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan