On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In the current Debian packages for GNOME 2, there's a majorly annoying
> crasher which causes Nautilus to crash on startup if you choose normal
> fonts
<snip>
> Other than that, if you see GNOME-related crashes, please report them
> (install Bug-Buddy for more convenient bug reporting). Its your best
> bet for those crashes to be fixed.

This is *very bad advice* *unless* you compiled GNOME2 yourself. Otherwise,
please send the bug reports to your vendor (Debian or Red Hat). Distributions
communicate with the upstream developers when they need to, but since they
add patches and so on, it is better to let your vendor contact your upstream
for you. In addition, this way your vendor knows which programs are problematic,
and even which versions are problematic, which goes a long way towards helping
get a high quality stable release.

Lesson: *never* send bug reports directly upstream unless you compiled yourself.

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