http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26630
--- Comment #10 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2012-03-04 18:27:42 CST --- I don't think anyone is suggesting that we start trying to distinguish every possible external cause of a problem. But there are bugs that do get identified as upstream, and this would make it easier to find them.
As for these bugs being invalid, the practice has been to keep them open to collect duplicates and not mark them as invalid until they are going to be closed, e.g., bug 23323 was kept open with a resolution of NEW for over four months with (not a Wine bug) in the summary. That's inaccurate and sends a contradictory message to users. It would be much clearer to mark these bugs Resolved, Upstream as soon as that becomes apparent, leave them open to collect duplicates as long as the upstream bug is open, and simply close them when the upstream bug is closed.