Felipe Sateler writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:56:56 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I think it is always reasonable for the maintainer to forward the bug > > upstream. > > > > But what I think is bad is _demanding_ or _requiring_ the maintainer to > > forward the bug upstream. If they don't want to do that for whatever > > reason then asking the submitter to do so is IMO perfectly acceptable. > > We can't demand or require anyone to do anything. Yet we expect > maintainers to answer bug reports, provide packages, etc. The fact that > you can't force anyone to do anything doesn't mean you can't say that > some behavior is preferred or considered best practice.
Yes. But in this case I don't think we should be "expecting" maintainers to necessarily shepherd bug reports upstream. I don't think a maintainer who fails to do so is failing in their job as maintainer. The maintainer should decide whether they think doing that is a useful thing to be doing for that package or that bug, and communicate this decision to the user (and set the bug state accordingly). 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/19758.18829.337578.183...@chiark.greenend.org.uk