On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 09:05:04PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Source: developers-reference > Severity: normal > > "3.1.4. Coordination with upstream developers" says > > "You have to forward these bug reports to the upstream developers so that they > can be fixed in a future upstream release." > > That's not the current/best practice for a number of packages, either because > of the sheer volume of bug reports/size of the package or because some of the > bugs are very specific to the reporters setup and having the Debian maintainer > as a middle person forwarding information back and forth would be useless > (e.g. for the Linux kernel where a lot of bug reports are hardware-specific). > > The current formulation will cause false expections for end users. > > Maybe alternatively make this > > "You can either forward these bug reports to the upstream developers yourself > or ask the reporter to report them upstream, so that they can be fixed in a > future upstream release."
I would like something stronger. To me, the core message of the current text is that you should ensure that bug reports which are not Debian-specific end up with upstream, *somehow*, whether by the maintainers forwarding it to upstream themselves or by them asking the reporter to do so. Your proposed new text weakens that, and I think that's not a good idea. I agree that it's perfectly fine for a maintainer to say "this is an upstream bug, please report it upstream", which the current text doesn't allow for. Having said that, I *don't* think it's fine for a maintainer to say "never ever report upstream bugs for this package to Debian"; for someone not familiar with the software in question, determining whether something is a Debian-specific bug or an upstream one is not always possible. While we're at it, I think we should also point out that if upstream uses an issue tracker that is supported by bts-link, it might be nice to keep upstream bug reports that were filed in the Debian bts open, but mark them as forwarded to the correct URL so that bts-link will tag them "fixed-upstream" when relevant. That should probably not be a requirement though. -- Could you people please use IRC like normal people?!? -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre, trying to quiet down the buzz in the DebConf 2008 Hacklab
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