[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#617743: Processed: reassign 617743 alsa-driver

[Tarek Soliman]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 04:25:16AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 01:03 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:01:37PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:30:23PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > > * Debian Bug Tracking System [110331 03:39 +0000]:
> > > > > Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > reassign 617743 alsa-driver
> > > > > Bug #617743 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.37-2-686: found another USB midi cable with a 4 byte limit
> > > > > Bug reassigned from package 'linux-2.6' to 'alsa-driver'.
> > > > > Bug No longer marked as found in versions 2.6.37-2.
> > > > 
> > > > This can be fixed easy to the alsa-source package. The fix will then
> > > > be valid for users who build their alsa-drivers from alsa-source.
> > > > But people using alsa drivers from Debian's kernel won't, though.
> > >  
> > > I agree it should be fixed in linux-2.6.  But it should be accepted
> > > upstream first, and filing a bug in the upstream bug tracker is
> > > probably not the way to get this done!
> > 
> > What is the correct way to get this accepted upstream?
> 
> Add a 'signed-off-by' statement to your patch as explained in section 12
> of <http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches>, then
> send it to Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> and the ALSA developer
> list <alsa-devel at alsa-project.org>.

Done. Thanks for the advice.
-- 
Tarek