Dr-Noob
Bugs reported by debian users
Hey, Dr-Noob
this package has been into Debian unstable repository. The version is 0.98. There are currently three bugs reported by users.
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998722
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=999588
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=999591
In fact, the first bug. He reported that the latest version(commit a5b321) is no problem. But there are still some information errors. Although the other two bugs are based on the 0.98 version, But i think the latest version should still have this problem So I feed these bugs back to you. I don’t know if you can try to fix it. And I will update the version of the debian unstable repository to your latest version and let them test
Hi, thanks a lot for reporting this.
First of all, I think that the Debian package should be updated to the upstream version. v0.98 and v1.00 look more or less the same but it has been a lot of changes since then, so probably some of these bugs disappear with a newer version.
Second, I would encourage people to report the bugs in GitHub, as I usually look at the issues from time to time, but if bug reports are on the Debian webpage I will not see any of them.
That said, if you update the package to v1.00 and people still have issues and post them on GitHub I will fix them, for sure!
Second, I would encourage people to report the bugs in GitHub, as I usually look at the issues from time to time, but if bug reports are on the Debian webpage I will not see any of them.
The general idea is that bugs in Debian packages are first reported in Debian and the package maintainers then triage what are debian-specific bugs and what not and then forward upstream issues to upstream's bug tracker (if not yet fixed in the most recent upstream release or git checkout).
It's not your responsibility as upstream developer to track every distribution's bug reports against your software and nobody minds if you don't do it. But of course nobody would mind if you do, either. :-)
And in more general: There are upstream developer who don't want any bug reports for binary packages shipped with Linux distributions, especially not if (like in this case 0.98) is shipped with a stable release and will only get important and security fixes inside the stable release. Other developers care a lot and do subscribe to all these bug reports. :-)
Second, I would encourage people to report the bugs in GitHub, as I usually look at the issues from time to time, but if bug reports are on the Debian webpage I will not see any of them.
The general idea is that bugs in Debian packages are first reported in Debian and the package maintainers then triage what are debian-specific bugs and what not and then forward upstream issues to upstream's bug tracker (if not yet fixed in the most recent upstream release or git checkout).
It's not your responsibility as upstream developer to track every distribution's bug reports against your software and nobody minds if you don't do it. But of course nobody would mind if you do, either. :-)
And in more general: There are upstream developer who don't want any bug reports for binary packages shipped with Linux distributions, especially not if (like in this case 0.98) is shipped with a stable release and will only get important and security fixes inside the stable release. Other developers care a lot and do subscribe to all these bug reports. :-)
Thanks a lot for your explanation, @xtaran. I am more one of the second developers that you mentioned, the ones that care a lot and always want to be updated if someone finds a bug. But it is good to know how these things work. Every day is a good day to learn something new.
I would appreciate it if @ClayStan could update the package to the latest version available in GitHub to know if those problems still occur or not.