Maintainer Responsibilities

[Jon Ciesla]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't want to start a long thread, but just to ask a couple questions for my 
> own clarification. Does a maintainer's responsibilities end with packaging 
> bugs? IOW, if there is a problem in the package that is _broken code_ do they 
> need to do something about it or is it acceptable for them to close the bug 
> and say talk to upstream? Do we want those bugs open to track when the bug is 
> fixed in the distro? I'll accept whatever the answer is, I'm just curious.
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve
>
>   
Not sure what's documented, but I consider it my responsibility to 
either patch and send it upstream, or document my pesterings of upstream 
in the BZ and keep it open.  See 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478634

-J

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