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A big part of your job as Debian maintainer will be to stay in contact
with the upstream developers. Debian users will sometimes report bugs
-to the Bug Tracking System that are not specific to Debian. You
-must forward these bug reports to the upstream developers so that
-they can be fixed in a future release. It's not your job to fix
-non-Debian specific bugs. However, if you are able to do so, you are
-encouraged to contribute to upstream development of the package by
-providing a fix for the bug. Debian users and developers will often
-submit patches to fix upstream bugs, and you should evaluate and
-forward these patches upstream.
+that are not specific to Debian to our bug tracking system. You
+have to forward these bug reports to the upstream developers so that
+they can be fixed in a future upstream release.
+ <p>
+While it's not your job to fix non-Debian specific bugs, you may freely
+do so if you're able. When you make such fixes, be sure to pass them on
+to the upstream maintainers as well. Debian users and developers will
+sometimes submit patches to fix upstream bugs -- you should evaluate
+and forward these patches upstream.
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If you need to modify the upstream sources in order to build a policy
compliant package, then you should propose a nice fix to the upstream