Reporting Bugs

[Istimsak Abdulbasir]

Hi Joe,

When you say "new mainline kernel", are you referring to new kernels in the
upstream ubuntu branch or kernels released on www.kernel.org?

If the bug has been fixed, the fixed package will be available in the
stable release repos, or, if not, you check how the bug was fixed then
slowly add it to the stable release trees? So I am clear on this. Thanks
for responding.

Istimsak Abdulbasir


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Joseph Salisbury <
joseph.salisbury at canonical.com> wrote:

> Can someone further analyze this paragraph.
>
> "For bugs in the Linux (Ubuntu)
> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux> package,
> unless the upstream maintainer or kernel developer notes otherwise, if a
> new mainline kernel comes out, and you haven't tested with it, your report
> is considered Status Incomplete <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status>
> whether
> or not someone toggled the Status of your report. "
>
> Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
>
>
> Hi Istimsak,
>
> When a new mainline kernel comes out, we usually ask to have it tested.
> The primary purpose of this is to see if the bug has already been fixed
> upstream.  If it has been fixed upstream, we check to see if it was also
> sent for inclusion in the upstream stable trees.  If it wasn't sent to
> upstream stable, we then figure what exact commit fixed the bug, then
> cherry pick it into the Ubuntu stable kernels.
>
> A bug is also set to Incomplete when the apport logs are not included in
> the report.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the information you were looking for.  If not,
> just let me know and I can provide some additional details.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
>
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