Quoting Bas Wijnen (2014-05-04 16:33:08) > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 09:14:50AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >>>I don't think this is very clear from the guidelines, and I have had >>>mixed responses from maintainers when reporting upstream bugs, >>>varying from "thanks, I'll report it upstream for you" to "stop >>>wasting my time, report it upstream instead". >> >> While I find the latter reaction a nuisance, I understand that >> maintainers of huge packages with an understaffed maintainer team >> tend to do that. The situation is less than nice, but I'd rather see >> maintainers' time spent on packaging in those cases. > > Yes, I can understand that maintainers set their priorities; I do that > myself as well. The problem I have with the latter is not that I > should report it upstream (it's not ideal, but understandable), but > the "stop wasting my time" part, which implies that I'm wrong to send > reports about upstream bugs to Debian maintainers in general.
I believe following https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting should *never* be a waste of time. Annoying, maybe, but not "waste of time". Bugs reported twice or without sufficient data may be waste of time - response should then be to point to kindle point to the documented procedures for bugreporting (either the generic one or a more specific one for the team or package), I cannot imagine *any* example of a bug reported reported according to guidelines being a waste of time. Can you provide examples of that kind of response? Or perhaps think up an example to spark my imagination (and this discussion)? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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