Bug#189157: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting: It is not clear how/if bugs are forwarded upstream
tags 189157 + patch
thanks
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:37:13AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Remco Seesink wrote:
> > What to do as a reporter when the maintainer doens't forward a bug, and
> > it's clearly an upstream problem? Maybe this shouldn't be mentioned on
> > www.debian.org, but I am curious anyway.
>
> You can always send mail to <bugnumber>@bugs.debian.org asking for it to be
> examined and forwarded. This will be seen by the maintainer of the package
> and by other developers who track bugs. If this doesn't produce any result,
> you can send mail to debian-devel@lists.debian.org asking for the bug to be
> looked at.
>
> I agree that we could polish up the docs about these issues.
Hi.
This is a patch for this issue.
Comments welcomed:
Index: Reporting.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/Bugs/Reporting.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -r1.36 Reporting.wml
--- Reporting.wml 13 Apr 2003 15:15:42 -0000 1.36
+++ Reporting.wml 20 Apr 2003 20:21:59 -0000
@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@
<p>If you'd like to send a copy of your bug report to additional recipients
(such as mailing lists), you shouldn't use the usual e-mail headers, but
-<a href="#xcc">a different method, described below</a>.</p>
+<a href="#xcc">a different method, described below</a>. Please note
+that it is normally not recommended to report a bug both to the debian
+bug tracking system and the program's original bug address (or other
+bug tracking systems like bugzilla or Sourceforge.net's one): The
+maintainer will forward your report when needed. This helps to
+avoid duplicate reports.</p>
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