Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that distinction isn't made clear: it's only if people think about it > that they will realise that they are supposed to report debian-specific > packaging bugs to the debian bugs database and package-specific bugs to > whatever upstream thingy they can find. _if_ they can find it.
For my packages, I would like people to report upstream bugs with reportbug. I'll forward them upstream if need be. For most of the packages that I maintain, I have a very close relationship with upstream and have a lot of communication channels available to me that the bug reporter probably wouldn't have. For example, if someone reports a bug in OpenAFS, I usually talk it over with the developers on Zephyr before forwarding it to the upstream bug database. I think this is a case where very large packages like Firefox or OpenOffice may have different needs than the majority of packages in Debian. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
