Re: mv symlink-to-dir/, debian bug feed

[James Youngman]

On Jan 28, 2008 12:45 AM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> For all distros perhaps being more aggressive at forwarding downstream
> bugs to the upstream mailing list would be a good thing.  I know that
> I have not been doing that as much as I should.

I could not agree more.  I often find that there are bugs or patches
of which I had no knowledge because they were never forwarded
upstream.  In my case, I'm referring to findutils, and the Debian
packager for findutils is easily the most communicative of all the
distribution contacts.  So much so, that I don't even know who the
relevant person is for (afaict) any other distribution.    (I've
BCC'ed him to let him know I appreciate his work while still sparing
his blushes).

However, nevertheless I have subscribed myself for findutils and
locate (with pts-subscribe).  The downstream maintainers do a lot of
valuable work in making the various tools work together in sensible
ways and in doing triage of bugs.   However, should it be the case
that I make a boneheaded call on a feature or transition[*], seeing
the influx of bug reports to the distibutions is an important signal
that somethng has gone wrong.

I fear though that there may be memebrs of the mailing list who might
be deterred by the increased level of email.  That wouldn't include me
though, I think (famous last words...).

[*] Case in point: the short-lived change in find's regex syntax.

James.