Best practice for reporting bugs

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:48 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
> Olá Chow e a todos.
> 
> On Monday 30 March 2009 09:59:46 Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> > I think it's more of assigning the bug to the correct place. Because
> > these bugs aren't really in Ubuntu, but in a PPA (which is considered a
> > 3rd party repository), the bugs don't really belong to Ubuntu unless
> > they can be reproduced on the packages in the official Ubuntu archives.
> 
> Ok, I need to step back a bit, and make my self clear.
> I just want to be able to file a bug on a package... its just a package that is both in Archive and PPA. but the version on my system comes from the PPA.
> 
> > However, I believe that eventhough the bugs don't really belong in
> > Ubuntu, they do belong somewhere. There should be some way to report and
> > track bugs in PPAs, but this is a Launchpad issue.
> 
> Exactly. The bug should go somewhere. And that place is the PPA BTS, _if it exists_.
> If it doesnt let apport fail as it currently does. But if there is a PPA for package FOO, why not redirect the apport collected data to that PPA BTS?
And it does not exist right now.  So where do you expect apport to point
to? 
> Am I making such an hard question, or using the wrong example?
> 

-- 
Chow Loong Jin
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