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On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 19:31 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I noticed today that a crasher bug in nautilus was causing a lot of > duplicate reports from Debian squeeze users. I have backported the fix > that was in the git tree to 2.30 for our next point release, but there > was no way for me to know this was happening; I noticed it by luck by > skimming nautilus-list. > > I think it would be better for everyone if we could be warned when a > distribution package causes an avalanche of bug reports upstream. Often > these bugs are not reported downstream, especially for applications like > gnome-panel and nautilus which just restart after crashing. With our > stable releases lasting 2 years, that can mean 2 years of crashers > piling up. > > I don’t know if mechanisms could be set up to make it easier, but at > least don’t hesitate to file a bug downstream (or use any other > communication channel) when this happens. > > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > distributor-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/distributor-list -- mailto:[email protected] | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
