On 4/4/19 11:15 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 06:30:21PM -0400, Digimer wrote:
I've had so many bug reports to Fedora go ignored, only to have them auto-close when the version I filed against goes EOL. I rarely even bother filing bugs against it anymore.
Yeah, this is frustrating, but there's just plain more bugs to go around than developer resources. In many cases, especially where the issue requires feature development, you may have more success working directly with the upstream. Fedora packagers are generally reluctant to carry significant downstream changes.
I just ask them who upstream is. Then I deal directly with them. When it gets fixed, I link the fix comments to the Fedora Bug and Fedora is more than happy to oblige.
You CAN NOT do this with RHEL and clones. Upstream tells you that yo are being ridiculous running such an out dated OS and they can't help you, even if they wanted to.