Jan de Groot wrote:
I see a lot of bugs getting closed with "Upstream" lately because they're not packaging bugs. This is not the way to solve bugs. The only bugs that should be closed upstream are the ones in binary modules like flashplugin or nvidia binary drivers. Opensource software can be fixed or debugged, so we should do that instead of using this bogus closure option.
I agree if a package is actually broken then the bug report should remain open with a link to the upstream bug report so that a patch can be pulled when this is fixed upstream. But I have used "upstream" to close bugs that I will not leave hanging around in the bug tracker because they are very minor issues that I know upstream do not care about (e.g. glibc first day of the week issues). If there is going to be no upstream patch, then we should not be patching ourselves. Allan