On Monday 24 November 2008 10:13:23 Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My adopted package gxemul has a bug in Ubuntu[1] (seg fault on command > > line parameters) which reproduces in the current Debian package. It has > > been fixed recently in upstream's CVS so I plan to add a patch for the > > time being, pending an upstream release. > > > > 1) is this the right approach or can you suggest better? > > Sounds fine. Be sure to prepare an upload for testing-proposed-updates > if you want to add the patch to lenny and the release team are likely > to approve the patch, since your package is not in sync between lenny > & sid. Seen from the Ubuntu side you are very welcome to use the bug in Launchpad for tracking the issue.
> > 2) should I open a similar Debian bug for this in the normal way, or > > just respond to the Ubuntu bug, or some other course of action? If a > > seperate bug, should I interact with Ubuntu's at all or leave them to > > it? > > I personally wouldn't open a Debian bug about it. If you at some point chooses to add a new debian bug with the same issue, please use the "Also affects distribution" button in the ubuntu bug to link it against the debian bug. This will help us a lot tracking the fix and when it arrives in Ubuntu. > If you want to, you can close the launchpad bug in your changelog like > this: > > * fixes segfault (LP: #12345) > > Once the package is synced to Ubuntu, the launchpad bug will be closed. We really appreciate this as well! > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise Cheers, Andreas (Kubuntu user, and currently maintaining 3 packages in debian) -- ,-¤. Kubuntu Linux ¤ ; http://www.kubuntu.org `-¤' Linux for Human Beings -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
