Re: debian bug reporting
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:30:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:11:02PM +1200, Paul William 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.
>
> Submit it with the upstream flag.
Preferably not. I don't think that bug submitters should use the
upstream tag: it's there to help *maintainers* categorize their bugs.
The maintainer almost always has more information than the submitter
about whether or not the bug is upstream, and you should let them
decide.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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