Bug Reporting Question

[Patrick Barnes]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

>Hi.
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>Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
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>>In general, report packaging/build problems to Fedora, and actual issues
>>with the program upstream.
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>This may be tricky since the casual user has absolutely no clue what patches
>RH applied to the packages (and upstream does not know that, either).
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About the only way around that is to follow the age-old advice of
downloading, building and installing the latest (reads: CVS) version
from the original developer of the program in question to see if the bug
is still present, and report it only if it is. At that point, you would
know if it were a problem with a Fedora patch or not. Otherwise, best
practice is exactly as stated above. Just make sure that you let the
upstream team know that you are testing on a Fedora system.

Additionally, if the problem does not exist upstream, you might be able
to create a patch that fixes the problem downstream and submit it as an
interim fix until the new version makes it downstream.