Hi Branden, On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:04:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > This is a bug in the upstream code. We will forward the report to the > > upstream BTS (https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/main_page.php) > > which is easily accessible via the "Bug reporting" link at > > alsa.sourceforge.net. Obviously it will save us some work if, in the > > future, you can file non-urgent "upstream" bugs directly in the upstream > > BTS. > I respectfully disagree with this advice; I personally feel that the Debian > BTS should track bugs in Debian packages that are noticed by Debian users. > > The Developers' Reference[1] is not terribly clear on this particular issue, > so I regard it as a matter of personal preference. > > Still, this is a minor point; thanks for looking into my report.
While I usually agree with this and just tag the bugs "upstream", for some packages the number of bugs is big enough that we want to try to get the less upstream bugs reported in the BTS. ALSA packages were in a horrible state BTS-wise a few years ago, and thanks to the new people that have been taking care lately, specially Steve Kowalik and Thomas, the bug count dropped to something that could be handled more or less sanely. I know this argument is a poor one when discussing with the X maintainer, but anyway. ;) The ALSA team currently lacks the manpower it needs to do things as we'd like to, and bug triaging and forwarding takes most of Thomas' time, who is very, very patient when it comes to forward a bug to the ALSA Mantis, forward upstream's replies back to our submitter, and viceversa. I totally understand that he's a bit tired of doing this, and if we can get a few less reported, that's a lot better. The next alsa-driver upload will include scripts for reportbug advocating reporting upstream stuff directly in alsa-project.org. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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