On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:48:26 +0200 Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think forwarding of bugs is not mentioned in Bugs/Reporting but > Bugs/Developer, because you should _not_ do it. It's the task of > the maintainer to decide this. As a user and not developer, I did not read Bugs/Developer. How could I have know not to report bugs upstream? What to do as a reporter when the maintainer doens't forward a bug, and it's clearly an upstream problem? Maybe this shouldn't be mentioned on www.debian.org, but I am curious anyway. > I read the paragraph about tags as: "Do it, if you really know what your > doing and if it's obvious. In doubt: Don't do it." I think, mostly > this feature is used for patch and security. > > Perhaps someone can clarify this paragraph a bit but IMHO further changes > are not needed. Maybe not this paragraph, but I think it should be at least made clear how bugs reported to the BTS are handled regarding to upstream in Bugs/Reporting. Cheers, Remco.
