On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 07:47 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:28:32 +0100 > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In fact, something like the above is what I always do and did for my > > packages (and had to do, as I'm a package-monkey and no developer). > > > > IOW: if it's not a packaging bug or otherwise specific to Fedora I > > asked the reported to report the bug upstream, as the bug gets fixed > > for everyone then -- that includes other distributions and thus is > > the best for everyone and avoid double work in our current world with > > fivehundred-and-more distributions. If the reported didn't forward the > > bug upstream I did it if the bug looked worth forwarding. > > Except that as a maintainer it's one of your responsibilities to do > some of the upstream filing/tracking. And also to help the user debug, and to provide a fix where possible. Where would Fedora be if at least the majority of packagers didn't do that, and didn't actually work on the upstream codebase? I'll tell you where -- we'd be just another one of the second-rate distributions, packaging the software which other people work on, rather than setting our own goals and innovating. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
