Subject: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting: It is not clear how/if bugs are forwarded upstream Package: www.debian.org Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-15 Severity: normal
Hello, While reporting several bugs I often wondered if the bugs are forwarded to the upstream developers by the package maintainer, or if I should do this myself. I have found out that the tag upstream means the bug is not debian specific, and that the tag forwarded means that the bug has been forwarded to upstream developers. I think this should be described at: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Furthermore, it seems there is no policy/guideline about when a bug should be forwarded upstream. Should the bugreporter do this? Should the package maintainer do this? Should there be a guideline/policy about this at all? Maybe this should be discussed at a mailing list. The outcome of this discussion should be described as well on: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I mention this since I think bugs should be reported to the distribution because it could be distribution specific, security reasons, data corruption etc. At the same time bugs should be known by the upstream authors. It seems upstream authors are more likely to fix bugs since they have more experience with the inner working of the software in most cases. But if this procedure is not clear, there is a risk that a bug is duplicated by the original reporter, and by the package maintainer in the upstream bug database. I am not sure if the priority of normal is in place for this bug. Cheers, Remco. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux seesink 2.4.20 #1 Sun Feb 2 20:42:08 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
