On Du, 24 apr 11, 16:19:05, Stephen Powell wrote: > > But that brings up another issue, which is reporting bugs upstream. > The official Debian policy is "Don't report bugs upstream". I quote from > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting: > > Don't file bugs upstream > > If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to the upstream software > maintainers yourself, as it is possible that the bug exists only in Debian. > If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the bug upstream. > > But if the bug is clearly in upstream code, and the maintainer is ignoring > the bug report, what else can one do? I dare say you in particulara are not the intended audience for that documentation. As far as I can tell you are more than qualified to judge if the bug is upstream or not, just don't forget to 'forward' the Debian bug and tag 'upstream'. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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