re reporting bugs against ubuntu

[David Farning]

CCing sugarteam

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
> David,
>
> I asked around in #ubuntu-bugs about reporting bugs against your PPA, and it
> seems that, while generally discouraged (which was what I thought), it's
> acceptable in some cases.
>
> FYI:
> (09:03:11 PM) lfaraone: bdmurray: hey, could you comment on whether or not
> what's suggested in
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-sugarteam/2009-October/001237.html
> is okay? Bugs in packages in a "proposed" PPA shouldn't be reported against
> Ubuntu, even if they are intended to eventually land there, right?
> (09:34:34 PM) bdmurray: lfaraone: generally speaking that is correct
> (09:36:09 PM) lfaraone: bdmurray: okay, is this an exception? Right now the
> sugar packages in Karmic don't work at all, and this effort is the best
> we'll get to having working LTS packages.
> (09:38:01 PM) bdmurray: lfaraone: is the person creating the ppa packages
> subscribed to the ubuntu packages? if so that seems fine - but again this is
> generally not okay
>
Yes, I agree with bdmurrary.  Generally ppa should not use the primary
ubuntu namespace for reporting.  99% of ppa packages never result in
anything widely used.  Thus, you just end up cluttering the ubuntu
namespace in the bug tracker.  Pretty frustrating for a user to try to
report a bug and end up seeing:

On the other hand, this is a valid case for an exception.
1. As you pointed out, the accepted ubuntu packages don't work.
2. The Sugar team ppa packages will be pushed through the REVU system
and become the accepted packages.
3. I have set the maintainer for the sugarteam ppa packages as the
sugarteam the maintainer email is the sugarteam email list.

david