Bug#908155: Coordination with upstream developers not universally applied

2018-09-06 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:29:52PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I’m trying to be constructive here, but in the end, I still > think that this was something package maintainers (at least > DDs) have read beforehand and signed up for, so there’s no > room to complain now, Good. Please subscribe t

Bug#908155: Coordination with upstream developers not universally applied

2018-09-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > "You have to forward these bug reports to the upstream developers so that they > can be fixed in a future upstream release." > > That's not the current/best practice for a number of packages, either because > of the sheer volume of bug reports/size o

Re: [DRAFT] Bits from the Policy Team

2018-09-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 05 Sep 2018 at 05:58PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("[DRAFT] Bits from the Policy Team"): >> I'm thinking of sending out the following to d-d-a; reviews welcome. > ... >> Thanks to work by Hideki Yamane , Ian Jackson and myself, > > I don't feel the need to be c

Bug#908155: Coordination with upstream developers not universally applied

2018-09-06 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Source: developers-reference Severity: normal "3.1.4. Coordination with upstream developers" says "You have to forward these bug reports to the upstream developers so that they can be fixed in a future upstream release." That's not the current/best practice for a number of packages, either becau