Bug reporting issues

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:20:42PM +0000, Celso Pinto wrote:

> whenever I find a bug in an application, where should I report it? In
> Ubuntu's Bugzilla or the project's <whatever RT> they use?
> Quick example, I've reported some bugs to Ximian's bugzilla regarding
> LDAP issues and other stuff but these seem to go to /dev/null. 
> 
> I feel that because I'm sort of "only one" there isn't a big chance of
> having those small bugs fixed until they bother someone but if I report
> the bug in Ubuntu's bugzilla, probably the maintainer will put it in the
> upstream's report tracker and they'll say "hey, it's that guy from
> Ubuntu, better fix this".
> 
> So, any thoughts on this?

It is generally best to report bugs to Ubuntu.  The bug might be
Ubuntu-specific, and upstreams don't appreciate receiving bug reports for
code that they didn't write.

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 - mdz