How to fix bugs

[Marcel Pol]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 21:15 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> what is the usual workflow of fixing a bug? Today I added the patches 
> from the OpenBSD project and fixed a bug that had been reported in the 
> Redhat BTS.
> 
> So how are we going to inform the package maintainers (for Debian, 
> NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Redhat) that their bugs are closed, their 
> patches applied?

It should be the other way around. If downstream has patches then they
should send it upstream if it's appropriate. Then when upstream does a
new release the patches will give failed hunks, or ask for reverse
patching. Mostly that's enough notice (imo) and patches can then be
dropped or regenerated by downstream.

If there are open bugs for which you make patches then it would be very
polite to notify them. Imo it's not necessary, and I think it can be a
lot of effort to check every downstream bugzilla. 

-- 
Marcel Pol