* Bob Proulx wrote on Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:23:50AM CEST: > Stepan Kasal wrote: > > > Let me give an example: how would you feel if Fedora modifies the package > > so that it tells the users to report to bugzilla.redhat.com? > > ... > > Sure such a step of Fedora would induce negative feelings. > > It depends on how it is handled. On Debian systems if you run > "reportbug coreutils" for example it would send the bug report to the > Debian bug tracking system. One of the jobs of the maintainer is to > forward bugs as appropriate upstream. This sending of bug reports > into the Debian BTS has not induced any negative feelings that I can > determine. I think most distros have their own bug tracking. Not every distro forwards bug reports upstream smoothly. I've been frustrated by that. > I think one of the important points in the discussion not yet > mentioned is that free software is built by people who volunteer their > time. Yes. Forwarding a bug report to, say, the Cygwin maintainer of a package, is easy. Subscribing to several distribution specific bug tracking systems in order to catch bugs is much more work. But maybe everyone else doesn't have this problem. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
