Bug filing criterion / application errors

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2006-10-10 23:10:37 -0700, Mark Duling wrote:
> Do others agree that for bug filing guidelines that bugs for MacPorts
> should generally be confined to installation and configuration issues,
> with exceptions roughly spelled out?

Yes, but if a patch exists upstream, then one may want the patch to
be included in the port, in particular if the bug is important and
releases aren't done much often. Examples:

  * vorbis-tools: the bug has been there for more than a year.
    https://svn.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/10821
    (the patch may be important in languages with non-ASCII
    characters, as the bug affects both reading and writing
    ogg files).

  * MPFR: we don't do releases much often, as this requires testing
    on many architectures, and we are often very busy. But patches
    are provided on the web page.

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