On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 09:49 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matt McCutchen wrote: > > No. The bug is not an upstream bug per se until one has confirmed that > > it exists in the upstream version, which involves getting source and > > building it according to upstream's instructions, which adds up to a lot > > of work. If an upstream project has a good relationship with Fedora and > > is willing to investigate Fedora bugs, that's great. But if not, they > > have every right to chew out users who file bugs against them for a > > downstream version they don't control. > > If the Fedora package contains no patches, then the Fedora version > effectively IS the upstream version. > > Of course, if there are patches involved, it depends on the nature of the > patches whether they are relevant or not. And the package maintainer is in a much better position to assess that than a random user. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
