Mike A. Harris wrote:
On top of that, quite often when someone experiences a problem in a particular piece of software, they may be quite upset and/or frustrated about the issue. Frustrated enough to file a bug report to hopefully see the issue eventually fixed by someone, but also quite often hoping to expend the absolute minimal amount of effort to report the problem _anywhere_ as soon as possible, to make it someone elses problem real fast, and wash their hands of it.
Yeah,
$ rpm --erase {buggy_package} $ curl {latest package from upstream} $ tar -xzf ... $ ./configure $ make $ make install $ if {problem not fixed}: contact upstream