[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

Wed Jan 11 19:33:41 CET 2012

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
+> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500
+> But how do you choose which patches you want to backport from the
+> stream of bugfixes done by upstream?
+
+Because normally a single commit fixes a single bug and the commit
+message says it clearly, so it's easy to spot the fixes.
+
+> Should the packager monitor all
+> bug fixing activity? (sure (s)he *can*, but that's a lot of work)
+>
+
+No we don't need to, we just need to look for the fix we are
+interested in as I described before.
+
+> Just because someone doesn't file a bug against Mageia doesn't mean the
+> bug doesn't bother anybody, because many users don't report upstream
+> bugs to the distro's tracker.
+> (also, other users don't bother reporting bugs at all :-))
+>
+
+Don't think that when we get a bug report in mga bugzilla is because
+only mga users are affected ;) most of the time there's already an
+upstream bug report so we start following it and give any useful
+information we have about it. If it isn't we create it and follow it.
+
+-- 
+Juancho
+