When to report upstream?

[Daniel Letzeisen]

On 10/26/2013 10:58 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> To report upstream you'd generally have to make sure it happens on 
> the upstream version of the code rather than the Ubuntu packaged version.

For bugs that aren't specific to certain hardware, running another
distro in a VM can be helpful for verification. I find Arch Linux
well-suited to the task since it's a rolling release that stays close to
upstream and uses less patching than the Debian family. Once you verify
it there, you should have a look through the program's bug tracker and
recent git commits to make sure you're not reporting a duplicate.