On Friday 17 March 2006 4:08 am, Anders E. Andersen wrote:

> You are right in theory. In practice your advice is completely useless.
> Debian maintainers don't have time to play middleman between upstream
> and enduser. This is especially true for the KDE packages. Perpetuating
> the illusion that the Debian BTS works well in these cases helps noone.
>
> Bugs should go upstream whenever possible.

As an upstream developer on a package that is in Debian, as well as most every 
other distro of any consequence, I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly with 
this advice.  This is thoroughly good, sound, sensible advice.

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D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre  ----   Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/


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