On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:54:39PM +0530, shirish agarwal wrote: > Hi all, > I am using Ubuntu 7.04 (please don't laugh) and at times I do > report bugs. Sometimes I see that the bug-report is concerning upstream > (some issue, usability bug or feature-list wish). Unlike > bugs.launchpad.netwhich ubuntu has, the only way I came to know is one > can report bugs to > debian through an application called reportbug. After installing > reportbug, > making my bug-report came to know further that it needs an MTA. Digging > further came to know that there are only 2 , postfix & sendmail. As I am > reading my mail on the web (Gmail) hence didn't no need to have an e-mail > client (or MUA) hence became non-plussed. Are those really the only MTA's available in ubuntu? huh. How can you run a linux system without an MTA? what happens to system mail to root? (genuinely curious here). I am sure I am neither the 1st > one > to have this problem nor the last one. Hence instead of just posting for > the > howto of this in the mailing list, also have published it in > ubuntuforums.org > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2463091#post2463091 . The main > reason behind doing all this is there are not enough bug triagers around. > Something like 30 for all the bugs which come around. So there is a > possibility that such bugs do not get reported. Hence if we have a direct > route to u guys it would make things that much more easier for all > around. you can file bug reports directly at the bugs.debian.org website, if that helps. > So post the answer at the forum itself so people can use it. There is I'm sorry, but it is kind of rude to ask us to go to a downstream forum to post instructions on how to report bugs back upstream. Since you are the ubuntu user, perhaps *you* should do that since you understand better what ubuntu does to debian than those of us who don't use ubuntu. Sorry if I'm being pedantic and inflammatory, but there it is. > also > possibility of adding the whole thing to a wiki so people can use it to > make > bug-reports to debian as & when needed. Despite the above, I think this is a good idea for debian, having bugs reported further upstream. But only in the case where the bug is an upstream bug. And, how is the ubuntu user to know where the bug originates? Or whether debian is still using the appropriate version? etc etc. A
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