My own opinion is that the package maintainer is responsible for reporting bugs upstream when they are able to reproduce them. One reason for my belief is that I've seen the situation from the other side: as an upstream maintainer for a package, getting bug reports directly from users of a packaged version in another operating system. It can be a frustrating experience because the person reporting the bug can never be quite sure which version they are using (due to additional patches used in packaging), and generally are not able to try out suggested patches or pull from a source code repository. My point is that it isn't only the people reporting bugs that get frustrated by "go report it upstream", it is also the larger free software community. Another reason for maintainers to give bug reports due diligence is that it is hard to report bugs. Package maintainers may not always appreciate this, since they do it all the time, but look at bugzilla as though you've never seen it before (or just remember back to when you first saw it) -- it is hard to fill out a huge form, and if the problem is not severe enough to warrant your time on it (or you aren't even sure if it's a bug) you may just not bother. Bug reporters are absolutely essential to healthy free software and should be treated with respect. They are our eyes. Roll on ABRT. Tim. */
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