Re: We need a new subject- bug fixes

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 21:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:

Not paraphrasing. The bug was on the firefox configuration supplied with
FC6. Suggestion was that I file the bug on mozilla bugzilla. Since then
they have fixed the problem in firefox2. Look at bug: 227405

You said Red Hat told you it was not its problem and to go complain to
someone else. Just to confirm are you talking about
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227405. Maybe you
are misunderstanding what is being said there. All there is a request to
verify against the updates, file a bug report upstream and pass it on
the package maintainer for it to be tracked locally.

Even when Red Hat is the upstream maintainer for non-packaging specific
bugs, it is better to file bugs upstream. There are muliple reasons
including the factor the there is bound to be better exposure and more
people working on a upstream project compared to a distribution package.

Rahul

This is partially my fault. What I am reporting is not an upstream
problem. Mozilla is perfectly capable of doing what I want it to do if I
change the config option indicated. It is a problem with how firefox is
distributed by the rpm created I assume by fedora. I am asking that
fedora repackage a existing rpm. I am completely updated. A new firefox
came last week (1.5.0.10) but I can't tell if this correction was made.

It is not an upstream problem also since firefox2 as far as I can tell
does not have this problem. But the responder to the bugzilla did not
say they would deal with the problem in FC6. So in effect they as I said
sent the complaint somewhere else (what you are calling upstream).


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