On 15 Oct 2005 at 23:07, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Saturday 15 October 2005 22:56, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 15 Oct 2005 at 21:04, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:51, François Roels wrote: > > > > I'm not able to backup my server any longer. Le backup processes > > > > crach after any attempt without usefull (for me) message. > > > > > > I have filed a bug report against the package a week ago on the BTS > > > (Debian's > > > bug tracking system). See: http://bugs.debian.org/332743 > > > > > > Perhaps these two cases are related? (Question asked in direction of > > > the honored Bacula development crew.) > > > > Why did you log a Bacula bug in the Debian system? > > Because there could be a bug in a Debian package.
Yes, there could be. I would expect you to establish that there was a bug before logging a bug report. > You probably rather wanted to ask: "Why did you not log a Bacula bug in the > Bacula bug tracking system instead?" No, I didn't want to ask that. I was quite precise with my choice of words. > Because that's the default way to report problem with a binary Debian > package. It's the lazy end-user's way to tell the package maintainer > that there is a problem. In case the package being shipped with Debian > Sarge has a serious bug - perhaps even a security-relevant one - then > Debian needs to take action quickly. That could mean packaging a > slightly newer version or adding upstream patches to the "old" version > by the package maintainer. > > Usually asking the (upstream) software developers means getting the > reply "ah, that has been fixed in a later version - please upgrade". > But Debian doesn't work that way. The package maintainer's duty is to > look into the bug report, hopefully verify the bug and decide whether > to forward that report upstream. That process sounds inefficient and places too much work upon the packager. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
