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Re: Changing PACKAGE_BUGREPORT?
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Changing PACKAGE_BUGREPORT? |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:15:13 +0200 |
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* Bob Proulx wrote on Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:23:50AM CEST:
> Stepan Kasal wrote:
>
> > Let me give an example: how would you feel if Fedora modifies the package
> > so that it tells the users to report to bugzilla.redhat.com?
> > ...
> > Sure such a step of Fedora would induce negative feelings.
>
> It depends on how it is handled. On Debian systems if you run
> "reportbug coreutils" for example it would send the bug report to the
> Debian bug tracking system. One of the jobs of the maintainer is to
> forward bugs as appropriate upstream. This sending of bug reports
> into the Debian BTS has not induced any negative feelings that I can
> determine. I think most distros have their own bug tracking.
Not every distro forwards bug reports upstream smoothly.
I've been frustrated by that.
> I think one of the important points in the discussion not yet
> mentioned is that free software is built by people who volunteer their
> time.
Yes. Forwarding a bug report to, say, the Cygwin maintainer of a
package, is easy. Subscribing to several distribution specific bug
tracking systems in order to catch bugs is much more work. But maybe
everyone else doesn't have this problem.
Cheers,
Ralf