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[Micah Gersten <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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If we can catch more bugs before before a new version of an upstream
package is released, maybe we can reduce the bugs found in our actual
release.

Ara Pulido wrote:
> Well, I think I disagree with the option "what the developer said".
> 
> A bug in Ubuntu is only a bug in the official packages of Ubuntu (not
> PPAs, not backports). I think we should have a common policy for this.
> 
> Although a developer can be the main maintainer of a package, he or she
> is not responsible of Ubuntu and deciding that people can file bugs
> against Ubuntu for packages that are not in Ubuntu is not a decision
> that should be made by the developer.
> 
> We are getting more and more bugs against Ubuntu. We, at least, should
> have the certainty that they are actually bugs in Ubuntu.
> 
> What if the team in charge of the PPA created an associated project to
> file the bugs against it?
> 
> Regards,
> Ara.
> 
> On 11/26/2009 06:38 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Milan
>> Bouchet-Valat<nalimilan@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> Le jeudi 26 novembre 2009 à 10:32 +0100, Ara Pulido a écrit :
>>>> OK. Now I understand :-)
>>>>
>>>> Daily PPAs is the upstream project, not the Ubuntu package. Therefore,
>>>> if a bug is found, it should be filed against the upstream bug track
>>>> system (bugzilla, Launchpad, trac, or any other else they might be
>>>> using).
>>>>
>>>> PPAs are not offical Ubuntu packages, those bugs NEVER should be
>>>> reported against the Ubuntu project in Launchpad.
>>> I remember that during last cycle, Bryce Harrington was happy to get
>>> reports about KMS issues spotted in packages from the X team PPA,
>>
>> Daniel Chen said the same about the Audio Team PPA.
>>
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