We need a new subject- bug fixes
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 4 19:06:39 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 21:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>
> > Not paraphrasing. The bug was on the firefox configuration supplied with
> > FC6. Suggestion was that I file the bug on mozilla bugzilla. Since then
> > they have fixed the problem in firefox2. Look at bug: 227405
>
> You said Red Hat told you it was not its problem and to go complain to
> someone else. Just to confirm are you talking about
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227405. Maybe you
> are misunderstanding what is being said there. All there is a request to
> verify against the updates, file a bug report upstream and pass it on
> the package maintainer for it to be tracked locally.
>
> Even when Red Hat is the upstream maintainer for non-packaging specific
> bugs, it is better to file bugs upstream. There are muliple reasons
> including the factor the there is bound to be better exposure and more
> people working on a upstream project compared to a distribution package.
>
> Rahul
>
This is partially my fault. What I am reporting is not an upstream
problem. Mozilla is perfectly capable of doing what I want it to do if I
change the config option indicated. It is a problem with how firefox is
distributed by the rpm created I assume by fedora. I am asking that
fedora repackage a existing rpm. I am completely updated. A new firefox
came last week (1.5.0.10) but I can't tell if this correction was made.
It is not an upstream problem also since firefox2 as far as I can tell
does not have this problem. But the responder to the bugzilla did not
say they would deal with the problem in FC6. So in effect they as I said
sent the complaint somewhere else (what you are calling upstream).
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