Please think before you send bugs to Debian

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:10:20 +0100 Daniel Holbach 
<daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>Hello Scott,
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>Scott Kitterman schrieb:
>> Recently I was informed by a DD that I often work with about an odd bug 
that 
>> one of my fellow MOTUs had filed.  Apparently this person had thought it 
>> would be good to suggest the Debian Maintainer incorporate the Ubuntu 
>> specific changes in his package.
>> 
>> While this is generally good, in this case the change was to remove the 
>> iceweasel symlinks from the package.  
>> 
>> This would, of course, have made the package quite broken in Debian.  
>> 
>> Please think before you send bugs to Debian.  It's great for 
inter-distro 
>> relations when we can send them good fixes that make life easier for 
Debian.  
>> Stuff like this doesn't help and all and reinforces negative stereotypes 
that 
>> are all to common in Debian.
>
>Thanks for this reminder. Maybe we can codify that somewhere in the
>wiki. Also the use of submittodebian (ubuntu-dev-tools package) should
>be encouraged.
>
Go for it.  Since the reorganization, I can never tell where things should 
go.

>> P.S. Imagine how much fun we're going to have with this kind of thing 
once 
>> Launchpad implements one click bug forwarding to Debian.
>
>If you want your specific concerns about future feature implementation
>to be answered or addressed, why don't you choose a forum where
>Launchpad developers can answer the question?

Already had the conversation.  I didn't get very far with it.  No point in 
repeating the frustration again.

>All open systems have the problem that they could be tampered with. As
>somebody who did a lot of Desktop bug triage, I know that a lot of
>people will see simple-bug-forwarding as beneficial.

I'm guessing most of these people will be the senders of the bugs.  Not the 
recipients.  I know how I've felt about getting nonsense bugs from Baltix.

>A few things TTBOMK:
> - the upstream bug tracker people will need to opt in
> - the use of the "forward now" button will not be accessible in the UI
>to everybody by default
>
Those are good to hear.  That's not how it looked last I heard (it's been a 
while).

Scott K