Re: debian bug reporting
Paul William <webmaster@startlinux.co.nz> wrote:
> If there is a bug in a debian package and you are 90% sure its the
> upstream developers fault should you still report it and let the
> packager forward it upstream? I dont want to piss of debian packagers.
You're not likely to piss off a DD by submitting a real bug (speaking as
a DD).
However, evalutate the helpfulness of doing that versus sending it
upstream yourself. I don't mind receiving such a bug report for core
functionality of a package, specially for a package that gets updated
upstream often. However, submitting a bug report for an obscure
lisp function in Emacs, which gets a new upstream release about once a
year, is not very helpful. It clogs up the BTS and the maintainer
will have to revisit the bug much later to see evaluate if it was fixed
in a new version (unless he patched it himself). Just my opinion of
course.
Peter
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