---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bi...@canonical.com> Date: Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM Subject: Re: Bug#1086593: pdftocairo.1: Some remarks and editorial changes for this man page To: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@simnet.is>, <1086...@bugs.debian.org>
On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@simnet.is> wrote: > I do not send e-mails to upstream, if I have to acquire an account. > > Why not forward (valid) bug reports to upstream, as you should already have > an account there? > > What does Debian policy say? > > If upstream has questions they could use the Debian ticket for that. > > N.B. Upstream should monitor the bug trackers of distributions. I guess Debian Developers Reference § 3.1.4 applies but it says a maintainer can ask the bug submitter to do the forwarding work. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developers-reference.html#coordination-with-upstream-developers I have little knowledge or experience with manpages so it would be a significant amount of work for me to understand and properly evaluate your patches. It is my professional opinion that these patches should not be carried as Debian patches since they do not fix a Debian specific problem nor do the issues have a significant impact on usability of these packages for Debian users. Therefore, it is acceptable for a Debian maintainer to reject these patches. While I consider the poppler packaging to be adequately maintained, Debian's bug tracker for poppler is undermaintained as there are many bugs that need to be triaged and may no longer be relevant to Debian. As a minimum, I try to do some triage on new bugs like the ones you reported. It isn't helpful for managing the clutter in the bug tracker to have open bugs there that I consider to be of minor importance and that won't be fixed directly in Debian but only fixed in a new upstream release. Some upstreams follow Debian bugs but this is rare in my experience. It appears like fixing manpage warnings, deprecations, etc. is a passion for you. I encourage you to get an account at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ and submit merge requests there. Many projects are hosted there so it doesn't seem to me to be a waste of your time to do that. Since improving the manpages is more important to you than it is to me, I think it is reasonable to ask you to do a bit more work to see these issues fixed than to expect me to do that work for you. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
