Preferred way to report bugs that affect multiple RHL versions?

[Alan Cox]

> You are somewhat right about flaging the problem upstream, but Red Hat should be 
> made aware of the problem.  If the applet is broken, should it still be part of 
> the next release?  Should it be removed?  RHL release should not be blocked by a 
> faulty applet, but it tarnishes the image of RHL when installed applets 
> installed.  Then again, the author might fix the applet 2 weeks after the new 
> RHL was released.  The fixed rpm could then be made available.  It would be sad 
> if an applet which might be usefull for many would be missing in a version only 
> because of it was broked for a couple of weeks, because of bad timing.
> 
> What is the policy of Red Hat regarding this issue?

File the bug against the most recent affected Red Hat is my suggestion and
do mention its in older ones. Also if its a gnome applet gnome-bugzilla
would be good because 2.4 is about to freeze..