Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:41:49PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -=| Mike Hommey, Thu, 24 May 2007 19:39:20 +0200 |=- A standard example of this are bugs in applications that are due to bugs in libraries they depend on. Users would report bugs on the application, but it

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-25 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Mike Hommey, Fri, 25 May 2007 08:12:15 +0200 |=- On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:41:49PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -=| Mike Hommey, Thu, 24 May 2007 19:39:20 +0200 |=- A standard example of this are bugs in applications that are due to bugs in libraries they depend on.

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:18:19AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -=| Mike Hommey, Fri, 25 May 2007 08:12:15 +0200 |=- On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:41:49PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -=| Mike Hommey, Thu, 24 May 2007 19:39:20 +0200 |=- A standard

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:04:16AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Doesn't that fuck up versioning tracking of the BTS ? No, because the bug should only be found in B, not A. So how would it help users with reportbug if the bug is now on B and not A, when they report on A ? Mike -- To

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:04:16AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Doesn't that fuck up versioning tracking of the BTS ? No, because the bug should only be found in B, not A. So how would it help users with reportbug if the bug is now on B and not A,

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-25 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Don, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote: I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in

Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. What would you, as maintainer of package A, do? What do you think about leaving the

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Jörg, * Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-24 13:19]: I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. What would you, as

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:56:08AM +, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A.

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Mike Hommey, Thu, 24 May 2007 19:39:20 +0200 |=- A standard example of this are bugs in applications that are due to bugs in libraries they depend on. Users would report bugs on the application, but it would be reassigned to the library. Next users reporting the bug would not see it in the

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote: I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. What would you, as maintainer of package A,