Wouter Verhelst writes ("Bug#908155: Coordination with upstream developers not universally applied"): > To me, the core message of the current text is that you should ensure > that bug reports which are not Debian-specific end up with upstream, > *somehow*, whether by the maintainers forwarding it to upstream > themselves or by them asking the reporter to do so. Your proposed new > text weakens that, and I think that's not a good idea.
How about this These bug reports should be forwarded to the upstream developers so that they can be fixed in a future upstream release. Usually it is best if you can do this, but alternatively, you may ask the bug submitter to do it. ? Ian.