* IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoel...@iem.at> [2015-07-21 14:41]: > On 07/21/2015 07:11 PM, Peter P. wrote: > > * IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoel...@iem.at> [2015-07-20 04:17]: > >> all users of Debian packages, please always file a bug against the > >> Debian package if you encounter strangenesses. > > I reckon that users of compiles-from-svn then still write to the > > original authors, or is there another way of reporting bugs apart from > > debian-package-maintainer-reporting? > > > not sure i totally understand. > > in general, you should report bugs to the *closest* upstream you got the > package from. > if you got the package via Debian, report to Debian. > if you got the package from Santa Clause, report to Santa Clause. > if you got the package from the author (e.g. an svn clone), report to > the author. > > a downstream (Debian, Santa,...) should then report the problem to > *their closest* upstream, if appropriate (!, keep in mind that there > might be bugs in the Debian package that were never in upstream; e.g. > because Debian uses some special build flags per default; or because > Fedora ships a slightly modified version of the package in order to fix > another bug...) > > if you are not using the Debian package, you also don't need to report > bugs with Debian. apart from the chance that the bug doesn't exist in > Debian at all, it is likely that you simply don't know all the various > downstreams (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Santa, Pd-extended, pd-iem, > ...) from a package.
All understood, thanks for being so clear and helpful! best, P _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list