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eggplantbren

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Registered: 2009-11-04

Posts: 73

Quick question about bug reports

Hi all,

I was just reading the reporting bug guidelines (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Re … Guidelines) and was wondering about the section "Upstream or Arch?".

I'm not an expert on the particular package I want to file a bug against, so I have no idea whether the problem is upstream or Arch. Should I just go ahead anyway? I cannot find a similar bug on any upstream bug trackers.

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Quick question about bug reports

Hi all,

I was just reading the reporting bug guidelines (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Re … Guidelines) and was wondering about the section "Upstream or Arch?".

I'm not an expert on the particular package I want to file a bug against, so I have no idea whether the problem is upstream or Arch. Should I just go ahead anyway? I cannot find a similar bug on any upstream bug trackers.

If you're not sure, try a quick post on the forums.

In general, once you've used your google-fu you should know whether the problem is distro-specific. Its normally highly unlikely that you'd be the first in the world to run into a real bug (if no-one else has reported anything, its likely user error, especially if you're not using [testing]).

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eggplantbren

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Registered: 2009-11-04

Posts: 73

Re: Quick question about bug reports

Thanks. You're right, it's unlikely that I'm the first in the world to find a bug. However, it might be the case that the problem is Arch-specific in the sense that it only appears when you have version x of package foo and version y of package bar, and Arch may currently be the only distro with that combination of versions. My particular issue does involve an interaction between two separate programs provided by different packages.

Here is my thread BTW: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143164