Quoting Steve White (stevan.white@googlemail.com): > Under the current conditions, I cannot recommend reporting package > bugs to Debian or Ubuntu. > The system is broken, it has been broken, it will remain broken for some time. "The system" is made of individuals. If these individuals sometimes fail, I don't think the system should take the blame for that. Debian (and actually Ubuntu as well....and all other distros as wellà has an excellent bug tracking system that even allows linking bugs between Debian BTS and upstream BTS. Still, all this depends on the work of individuals who need to triage bugs. These individuals are all volunteers: some of them are very good in this...some are less good....and sometimes, the same individual is sometimes good in this and sometimes not. > Moreover it has lately come to my attention that this is a matter of > considerable strife between Debian and Ubuntu. It was in the past. It considerably improved since both BTS can be linked and other communication systems are in place (I can receive all Ubuntu bugs reports for packages I maintain.....anyone can receive bug reports for any Debian or Ubuntu package...including upstream authors. > I am communicating with some people regarding ways to improve the situation. > > But until this is resolved, my recommendation to reporters is: try to > find the authors or maintainers of the software, and report to them. It is sometimes more efficient, for sure. I even often recommend this on samba (which is very prone to very tricky bug reports) in order to avoid the "proxy effect" of the packager. How about triaging current bugs reported against ttf-freefont in Debian? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=ttf-freefont After all, there are only 6 of them..:-). X.org packages have hundreds of bug reports..
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