Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Dienstag, den 13.07.2010, 21:34 -0700 schrieb Matt McCutchen:
> On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 13:22 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: 
>
> > It is indeed documented in the wiki: "If there are bugs which you aren't
> > capable of fixing yourself because they deal with intricacies of the
> > source code which you don't fully understand, then you still need to
> > address these bugs. It can be helpful to work with the upstream
> > maintainer of the code, ..."
> > see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities
> 
> It's not clear to me whether that refers to true upstream bugs or only
> to Fedora-specific bugs that are too intricate to solve without upstream
> help.

It refers to "bugs" and thus *covers* all bugs. You should first try to
fix it yourself and upstream the fix if it's not Fedora specific. If you
cannot fix the problem yourself, ask upstream for help.

Regards,
Christoph