On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 01:29:39PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 11.07.2010, 06:13 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> > Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > > If you're suggesting that an upstream bug report is information needed
> > > to understand a Fedora bug, that's absurd.  It's a step taken to resolve
> > > the bug.  Would you mark a bug INSUFFICIENT_DATA because the reporter
> > > didn't provide a patch?
> > 
> > Providing a patch is actually hard. Reporting a bug in the upstream bug 
> > tracker is just a matter of filling out the form, if the reporter refuses 
> > to 
> > do that, it's only pure laziness.
> 
> Bingo! The very same could be said for the maintainer. :P
> 
> The difference between the bug reporter and the package maintainer
> is:

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The packager can also create a new testing package for the reporter to
test, e.g. to verify that the bug is not yet fixed in a newer upstream
release that is not in Fedora.

But the big advantage the reporter has, is that he usually can easily
reproduce the problem (if it is reproducible). The package maintainer
might have a hard job to do so.

Regards
Till

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