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[Ara Pulido <ara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 11/27/2009 08:21 AM, Micah Gersten wrote:
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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.

Indeed. I think it is a great idea to test dailies to avoid upstream 
bugs land in Ubuntu, but I don't think the "Ubuntu" project is the place 
to file those bugs. That's the only thing I disagree with.

Regards,
Ara.

> 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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