On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:57:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > mdz writes: > > It is considered to be in poor taste to report bugs to bugs.debian.org > > which have not been verified on Debian... > I should think that in most cases by the time you've produced a patch that > fixes a bug in an Ubuntu package you would be able to tell whether or not > the bug is likely to be present in the corresponding Debian package.
It's not quite that simple, since Ubuntu moves some of its core packages ahead faster than Debian; so then the question is are "support python 2.4, gcc 4" patches appropriate for Debian or not? They might not be /now/, but they will be in future -- so is filing the bug now an annoying distraction and thus bad, or a helpful contribution to ease future bumps in the road, and thus good? I assume the "brief note, link to a patch" was a compromise to handle those sorts of problems, though I think that a wishlist bug with a full patch (and possibly a usertag to group them together) is a better idea. Cheers, aj
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