- IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at [2015-07-21 14:41]:
On 07/21/2015 07:11 PM, Peter P. wrote:
- IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at [2015-07-20 04:17]:
all users of Debian packages, please always file a bug against the Debian package if you encounter strangenesses.
I reckon that users of compiles-from-svn then still write to the original authors, or is there another way of reporting bugs apart from debian-package-maintainer-reporting?
not sure i totally understand.
in general, you should report bugs to the *closest* upstream you got the package from. if you got the package via Debian, report to Debian. if you got the package from Santa Clause, report to Santa Clause. if you got the package from the author (e.g. an svn clone), report to the author.
a downstream (Debian, Santa,...) should then report the problem to *their closest* upstream, if appropriate (!, keep in mind that there might be bugs in the Debian package that were never in upstream; e.g. because Debian uses some special build flags per default; or because Fedora ships a slightly modified version of the package in order to fix another bug...)
if you are not using the Debian package, you also don't need to report bugs with Debian. apart from the chance that the bug doesn't exist in Debian at all, it is likely that you simply don't know all the various downstreams (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Santa, Pd-extended, pd-iem, ...) from a package.
All understood, thanks for being so clear and helpful! best, P