Re: How to fix bugs

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hi Roland,

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 21:15, Roland Illig wrote:
> So how are we going to inform the package maintainers (for Debian, 
> NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Redhat) that their bugs are closed, their 
> patches applied?

You are obviously aware of the specific bug reports, so you *could* (not
should) report your fixes to these reports. I have no idea of the *BSD
bug tracking systems, but I know the SuSE maintainer is subscribed to
this list (Vladimir Nadvornik), and so is Red Hat's (Jakub Jelinek).
Fedora is pretty much covered by me ;-) .

> How are bug fixes recorded in the ChangeLog?

I don't know, but I don't think it would hurt if you named specific
downstream bug numbers in your change log entries. So you could do in
your mails to this list. Maybe tag those with "BUGFIX:"? It might also
be a good idea to add Savannah and downstream bug report numbers to TODO
list items.

Providing hosting can be arranged, are there any objections against
setting up an external (from savannah.gnu.org) bugzilla so we can manage
our own bug reports in a more practical way than the "maintainer only"
mode that Savannah bugzilla appears to use?

Leonard.

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