Bug#311262: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#311262: alsa-utils: aplay does not use standard output and standard error streams correctly

[Thomas Hood]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 21:04 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> While I usually agree with this and just tag the bugs "upstream", for
> some packages the number of bugs is big enough that we want to try to
> get the less upstream bugs reported in the BTS.


In some cases it is simply better for the user to talk directly to
upstream, without a middleman.  And there are cases where the benefits
of maintaining a Debian bug report alongside the upstream one are
outweighed by the overhead involved in maintaining that report.  The
ALSA packages satisfy some special conditions that make a "file upstream
please" policy reasonable.

* Upstream has a good, maintained BTS.
* The Debian maintainers are in a poorer position to fix some kinds of
bugs in the packages than either users or upstream, since they lack the
relevant hardware and they aren't even heavy duty sound users.
* The Debian maintainers have limited time.

Nevertheless I am going to modify the alsa-base and alsa-source bug
presubj messages to make it clearer that reports filed in the Debian
BTS are welcome.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>