Maintainer Responsibilities

[Matthew Woehlke]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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.

As far as:
"Do we want those bugs open to track when the bug is fixed in the distro?"

I would think the answer is "yes". Also tie the bug to the upstream bug 
if possible; if not, record in Fedora BZ a link to where the bug was 
reported (e.g. if upstream has only a mailing list).

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Matthew
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