On Sat 11 Sep 2021 at 22:40:32 -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > First, thanks to everyone here and the Debian community, an amazing project. > > Running bullseye with package roundcube. I believe I have found a bug that > I'd like to report. > > I am using reportbug to report it. When doing so, I got this message: > > Your version (1.4.11+dfsg.1-4) of roundcube appears to be out of date. > The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive: > experimental: 1.5~rc+dfsg.1-1 > Please try to verify if the bug you are about to report is already addressed > by these releases. Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? n > Newer released version; stopping.
Technically, the first part of the message is correct. However, your version of roundcube and unstable's version are the same. Submit the report. Even if unstable's version was higher, I would still send the report. The Project needs users to participate. > I don't want to install an experimental package on a production machine to > verify the bug and I really don't have the time to set up a debian > installation and install roundcube to test this. Not unreasonable. I expect the scary notice on this archive's webpage is also demotivating. > So it's unclear to me if I should bother reporting this bug or if they are > only interested in hearing about bugs from the upcoming release candidate. I > have reported the bug to roundcube's github page already. I'm not even > entirely sure if this is a bug with the package or roundcube itself. I'm > going to assume it's a debian package issue because my issue on github was > closed without comment: > https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/8198 Debian is interested in *all* issues affecting a user. The triager will help sort it out. > I've always been confused by whether and how debian patches relatively bugs > like this. I think only security patches were issued and minor usability > fixes don't get release until the next version of debian. But I may be > totally wrong on this. If it is a Debian bug, the fix woudld be applied in unstable and work its way through the system. The same happens with an upstream fix. > So would I just be wasting my time and everyone else's by reporting this? No! Please submit the report. -- Brian.