On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 21:04 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > While I usually agree with this and just tag the bugs "upstream", for > some packages the number of bugs is big enough that we want to try to > get the less upstream bugs reported in the BTS.
In some cases it is simply better for the user to talk directly to upstream, without a middleman. And there are cases where the benefits of maintaining a Debian bug report alongside the upstream one are outweighed by the overhead involved in maintaining that report. The ALSA packages satisfy some special conditions that make a "file upstream please" policy reasonable. * Upstream has a good, maintained BTS. * The Debian maintainers are in a poorer position to fix some kinds of bugs in the packages than either users or upstream, since they lack the relevant hardware and they aren't even heavy duty sound users. * The Debian maintainers have limited time. Nevertheless I am going to modify the alsa-base and alsa-source bug presubj messages to make it clearer that reports filed in the Debian BTS are welcome. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
