Re: Warning of crashers coming from distribution versions

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

[CC'ing gnome-bugsquad gnome org because that's where your bugtriaging
audience is...]

On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 19:31 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I noticed today that a crasher bug in nautilus was causing a lot of
> duplicate reports from Debian squeeze users. I have backported the fix
> that was in the git tree to 2.30 for our next point release, but there
> was no way for me to know this was happening; I noticed it by luck by
> skimming nautilus-list.
> 
> I think it would be better for everyone if we could be warned when a
> distribution package causes an avalanche of bug reports upstream. Often
> these bugs are not reported downstream, especially for applications like
> gnome-panel and nautilus which just restart after crashing. With our
> stable releases lasting 2 years, that can mean 2 years of crashers
> piling up.
> 
> I don’t know if mechanisms could be set up to make it easier, but at
> least don’t hesitate to file a bug downstream (or use any other
> communication channel) when this happens.
> 
> Thanks,
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