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On 09/23/2013 07:58 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:5240D5AF.1040305@gmail.com" type="cite">On
09/23/2013 11:55 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">What to do when someone discovers what is
clearly a problem but neither he nor anyone reading his report
here or on devel list can tell whether the bug is in kernel,
driver, xorg, gnome/kde/xfce/etc. or something else? </blockquote>
Well I'm pretty sure upstream is better suited to judge if their
component is at fault then the package maintainer in Fedora or
devel.
<br>
</blockquote>
I am not at all sure about that.<br>
<br>
Many, many bugs involve unexpected interactions between different
components. If you think upstream maintainers want to play
whack-a-mole trying to figure out why their package in Fedora is
encountering an issue that they're not encountering (remember,
Fedora is the fifth most popular distribution; MOST DEVELOPERS
AREN'T USING IT) and users on other distributions are not
encountering, you're wrong. If you think upstream maintainers want
to have to maintain installations of every distribution that ships
their software, just so they can troubleshoot distribution-specific
bugs, you're wrong.<br>
<br>
Furthermore, let's discuss how things will actually work under the
system you're proposing:<br>
<br>
<b>User to upstream bugzilla A: </b>"I'm encountering bug
frobnitz."<br>
<br>
<b>Maintainer A: </b>"That bug is not being caused by my package.
Go away."<br>
<br>
<b>User:</b> "Then what package is causing it?"<br>
<br>
<b>Maintainer:</b> "I don't know. Go away."<br>
<br>
or maybe...<br>
<br>
<b>Maintainer:</b> "Try bugilla B."<br>
<br>
<b>User to upstream bugzilla B</b>: "I'm encountering bug frobnitz."<br>
<br>
<b>Maintainer B:</b> "That bug is not being caused by my package. Go
away."<br>
<br>
<b>User:</b> "Then what package is causing it?"<br>
<br>
<b>Maintainer: </b>"I don't know. Go away."<br>
<br>
or maybe...<br>
<br>
<b>Maintainer:</b> "Try bugzilla A."<br>
<br>
or maybe...<br>
<br>
<b>Maintainer:</b> "Try bugzilla C."<br>
<br>
Etc.<br>
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