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by ylyn 992 days ago
> A patch is a patch and the author should be credited as such.

But the patch was not taken. The maintainer fixed it a different way. So credit is given for reporting the issue and suggesting a fix, and that is what is represented by the Reported-By. Is that so hard to understand?

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its the suggesting a fix (ie doing the research) thats missed, anybody can point out a bug