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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:04:48AM +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> I was under the impression that when a user finds a bug in his Gentoo |
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> installation, no matter in which package, he should file a bug in our |
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> bugzilla. |
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> Today I found a bug in the vanilla 2.6.8-rc4 kernel and I added a bug |
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> for it so people who would encounter the bug could find it and use |
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> the attached patch or decide to wait for a new version. |
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That was nice of you. However as we can't really do anything about it, |
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I merely closed it out, with a notice that we couldn't do anything about |
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it. |
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> However, I was told that it is policy to redirect anyone filing a bug |
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> on vanilla-sources or development-sources (and maybe some other packages) |
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> to upstream because the bugs are definitely not related to anything |
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> made by Gentoo developers. |
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Yup. But this is on a package by package basis. |
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> So I asked myself: why should a Gentoo user first think about where |
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> to file a bug report? I think it is or should be a service that we |
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> offer to our users if we act as a point of contact for anything they |
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> run into while using Gentoo. |
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We still are. However, if it is determined that the bug is not due to |
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the gentoo specific package, the user is usually nicely pointed to the |
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proper place to file this with the upstream developers. We do this to |
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mitigate the development effort that we, as gentoo developers, have to |
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do, and help report problems upstream to developers as soon as possible, |
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being good open source community members. |
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> And if a user doesn't have to think about where to file it; if we |
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> just close the bug as WONTFIX and redirect them upstream, then we |
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> could be generating more work for ourselves as the default search |
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> of bugzilla only includes unresolved bugs, so other users would |
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> re-report it. |
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Well, you ran into this because you were using a bleeding edge, pure |
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kernel.org kernel and ran into a problem. That package |
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(development-sources) contains no patches, and is only a copy of |
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upstream. I realize that this isn't documented very well, for the |
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different kernel packages, and I need to work on fixing that, and |
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documenting what the Gentoo kernel packages are, and the direction that |
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they will be taking. |
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Hope this helps, |
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greg k-h |
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