Bug#434706: closed by Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> (Closing old and upstream bugs)
Hi Ryo,
> For example, if one finds a bug in program YYY or style file ZZZ
> included in one of the TeX Live packages, one should report it to the
> ultimate author of program YYY or style file ZZZ . . . is that what
> you mean?
Yes.
> If so, the Debian bug tracking system of TeX Live accepts only bugs
> related to the packaging per se and nothing else. Is that correct?
In principle, yes. We are not a help desk for LaTeX and we cannot
track or care for bugs in tens of tousands of files.
> I wish there were means to announce such a policy within the Debian
> bug tracking system.
The point is that the bugs do not relate to Debian packaging, nor
upstream=TeX Live, since TeX Live is also only an aggregation of
packages.
In a normal Debian package, if a bug is reported, I can forward it
upstream, and upstream will care, or forget about it.
When I forward a bug upstream to TeX Live, the answer will be: Please
report it to the original author.
And yes, this is not what *I* as maintainer of TeX Live will do.
Norbert
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