On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:21:00PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Whining about Debian developers whining about upstream implies that you > > expect Debian developers to fix every problem. For instance, I suppose > > My problem is some developers will tell the user to submit it > upstream, when my understanding is the devel is supposed to flag it as > upstream and go submit it upstream themselves, since they're supposed > to have an idea what bugs are upstream anyway, and know how to provide > more helpful input for upstream. And sometimes the Debian developer can't really be helpful. I, for instance, have *never* had any luck acting as a go-between for Debian users and upstream XFree86 problems. The upstream XFree86 guys *always* seem to want to deal with the user directly. This, and the lack of a bug tracking system for the XFree86 Project, is why I don't mark XFree86 bugs as forwarded in the Debian BTS. I enjoy what I think is a good working relationship with XFree86 upstream despite the fact that the Developers' Reference tells me to do things differently than I do. It is better to be accomodating of upstream than to mindlessly adhere to a Debian-specific best practices document. In this case, our users are better served the way I'm doing it, because that's how XFree86 wants to handle things. Who am I to tell them to change their ways? -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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