[Linux-disciples] Keeping track of bugs and fixes

[Stephen R Laniel]

Bug reports for a given package can be submitted through the
distribution (say, Debian), through one of the
distribution's derivatives (say, Ubuntu), through an
unrelated group of developers (say, Red Hat), or through
a bug tracker at the most upstream location (say,
bugzilla.mozilla.org). Bug fixes go in the same place.

Is there any centralized place to keep track of all these
bugs and fixes? Are people supposed to submit their bugs to
the most central location? Or is there some technological
approach? Let's say that I come up with a new distribution
(say, Lubuntu), to which people can submit bugs for all the
included packages. Can I somehow latch onto the
more-upstream bug databases, so that any bugs submitted to
me also get submitted to upstream? In general, is there any
good way to integrate these bug databases?

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