New tool for opening upstream tasks

Jorge O. Castro jorge at ubuntu.com
Thu Feb 19 19:13:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Chuck Frain <chuckfrain at pobox.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity (I've not found an answer yet), what is the best way to
> tell if a bug is an upstream issue vs an Ubuntu specific issue? If there is
> a page out there that explains it please feel free to point me in the
> appropriate direction.

I tend to look in debian/patches or see how many patches with have vs.
debian on patches.ubuntu.com. I tend to lean on "this is probably
upstream" if a package is in universe and more obscure, but that's
just me.

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Jorge Castro
jorge (at) ubuntu.com
External Project Developer Relations
Canonical Ltd.




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