Universe bugs in Malone

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:24:04AM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>> 
>> I'm somewhat confused about reporting bugs in Universe.
>> 
>> I've understood they should be reported using Malone
>> (https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone) rather than Ubuntu bugzilla,
>> right?
>
>Correct.
>
>> What happens to bugs in Malone?
>> Do they get reported upstream (i.e. Debian)?
>
>Not yet. Currently Ubuntu is the only OS Launchpad knows about. But
>eventually you will be able to mark a bug as occurring in Debian, and/or
>Ubuntu, and/or any related OS that is registered in Launchpad, as well
>as mark it as occurring upstream.
>
>Even so, it will be up to individual maintainers whether they choose to
>be notified of Malone bugs in their packages (otherwise we could be
>accused of spamming debbugs). At least this can happen automatically --
>whereas with bugzilla.ubuntu.com, bugs need to be reported upstream
>manually.
>
>> How do they get closed? (When Debian closes the bug, or when Universe is
>> synched against Debian?)
>
>A Malone bug as a whole isn't open or closed. The same Malone bug on
>package Foo might -- for example -- simultaneously be open in Ubuntu
>Foo, fixed in upstream Foo, fixed in Debian Foo, and wontfix in MoLinux
>Foo.

So, there's a sliding scale of how closed a bug is. I'd still like to
see some sort of progress. As example look at bug 469. The bug is in
Hoary and Breezy, but not in Debian Sid, so I reckon it'll be fixed in
Breezy the next time the package is synched. However, looking at the bug
there is no way of seeing that.

Another problem, AFAICS, is that I don't know what process MOTU is using
when dealing with bugs reported in Malone. Will they report the bugs
upstream (i.e. Debian) or should I do that? If MOTU is a bit busy and
I'd like it reported ASAP how can I communicate that to MOTU (avoiding
irritating upstream with multiple similar notices is always important).

/M

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