On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 06:41:02PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > When it comes at samba, the value added by maintainers acting as > proxies between bug submitters and upstream is sometimes near to > zero. Even more, we often don't have easy ways to reproduce the users' > testing environment, particularly in the case of such panics. > > Even more, in many cases, upstream ends up requesting more information > or test cases and we end up acting as proxies the other way, too. > > So, in some situations, requesting bug submitters to report the bugs > themselves is done after careful thinking and balancing the advantages > vs the caveats of that choice, believe us.
Hello Christian! Yes, I believe you :-) Even more: I'm sure that there are a lot of packages like samba where reproducing bugs is not easy at all. Maybe we need a new header in debian/control for certain packages like this one to warn users about this kind of things beforehand. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
