On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:10:20 +0100 Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hello Scott, > >Scott Kitterman schrieb: >> Recently I was informed by a DD that I often work with about an odd bug that >> one of my fellow MOTUs had filed. Apparently this person had thought it >> would be good to suggest the Debian Maintainer incorporate the Ubuntu >> specific changes in his package. >> >> While this is generally good, in this case the change was to remove the >> iceweasel symlinks from the package. >> >> This would, of course, have made the package quite broken in Debian. >> >> Please think before you send bugs to Debian. It's great for inter-distro >> relations when we can send them good fixes that make life easier for Debian. >> Stuff like this doesn't help and all and reinforces negative stereotypes that >> are all to common in Debian. > >Thanks for this reminder. Maybe we can codify that somewhere in the >wiki. Also the use of submittodebian (ubuntu-dev-tools package) should >be encouraged. > Go for it. Since the reorganization, I can never tell where things should go.
>> P.S. Imagine how much fun we're going to have with this kind of thing once >> Launchpad implements one click bug forwarding to Debian. > >If you want your specific concerns about future feature implementation >to be answered or addressed, why don't you choose a forum where >Launchpad developers can answer the question? Already had the conversation. I didn't get very far with it. No point in repeating the frustration again. >All open systems have the problem that they could be tampered with. As >somebody who did a lot of Desktop bug triage, I know that a lot of >people will see simple-bug-forwarding as beneficial. I'm guessing most of these people will be the senders of the bugs. Not the recipients. I know how I've felt about getting nonsense bugs from Baltix. >A few things TTBOMK: > - the upstream bug tracker people will need to opt in > - the use of the "forward now" button will not be accessible in the UI >to everybody by default > Those are good to hear. That's not how it looked last I heard (it's been a while). Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
