Olaf van der Spek writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> wrote: > >> Will this mean that the problem will somehow disappear from > >> Debian? Because if it's a problem detected within Debian it's my > >> feeling that it will have to be tracked within Debian till the > >> problem is in Debian no more. > > > > No. but it is a way to be honest about teh issue: We are not spending > > debian time on fixing it. > > That's better than no response to a bug report at all.
That's true too. But on the whole I think it would be better to leave these kind of work-needed upstream bugs open in the Debian BTS but tagged and filed appropriately. As I understand it we are not in danger of having infrastructure capacity problems at the BTS due to these bugs, and the maintainers who think they are a very low priority don't want to see them can easily arrange that with the pretty sophisticated filtering and searching we have nowadays. But I think that's a matter of best practice and not something I'd beat a maintainer up about. I do want to say that from the opposite angle, I do often really appreciate it when a maintainer has the time to engage with upstream over my bugs. I often file bugs in the Debian BTS which are really upstream bugs because I think this is going to produce a better overall result for less effort - eg, because Debian and the Debian maintainer are better organised than the upstream. Many maintainers seem to appreciate this too. But if a maintainer tells me "please go and talk to them yourself" or even "please stop filing these kind of upstream bugs in Debian - you know how to do it yourself upstream and I have enough to do already" then that's a wish I would respect. So I guess ultimately what I'm saying is that questions like this can't really be one-size-fits-all. And it is the maintainer who is the right person to decide what the best approach is. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/19758.18548.460171.590...@chiark.greenend.org.uk