Dear All,
The Inkscape package in Debian is used by several other major linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) and hence it represents bugs which potentially affect a very large number of Inkscape users in linux. Its bug tracker is available at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=inkscape
Unfortunately, the Debian tracker is quite out of date, and many of the reports have not been forwarded to the Inkscape tracker on Launchpad. I think it's quite important for Inkscape QA, that the Debian tracker gets back in sync with the upstream project. I have been (slowly) working through the reports, but there's a pretty large backlog and some of the bugs were probably fixed years ago.
Would any of the upstream triagers be interested in helping out with this task? If so, a possible option would be for me to forward all the Debian bugs which relate to the upstream part of the Inkscape package. We could then triage the bugs in Launchpad, and I will update the Debian reports accordingly.
If anyone has any alternative/better suggestions for how to do this, then please let me know.
Thanks,
Alex