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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 2 Feb 1997 21:15:47 +0100 Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Karlsruhe_(TH),_Germany_?= Lines: 20 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <5d2slj$3ug@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F3810D.237C228A@FreeBSD.org> <5d299q$i6r@josie.abo.fi> Reply-To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de NNTP-Posting-Host: fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156392 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5883 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2279 In comp.os.linux.networking, mandtbac@abo.fi wrote: >Jordan K. Hubbard, in <32F3810D.237C228A@FreeBSD.org>: > >>[...] Does Debian benefit from Red Hat's customer bug >>reports? How about Slackware? >depends on the bug reports. >if they concern the software packages included in the distribution(s), >they would almost certainly be getting sent to the wrong place - such >bug reports should go to whoever maintains the free software in >question, so that every distribution maintainer can benefit. Debian does a very good job at forwarding these reports to the developers. Since many Debian package maintainers do feel responsible for their packages, these quite often contain bug fixes, too. The thing that initially attacted me to Debian was that they were the only distribution maintainers who ever wrote me a bug report.