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One thing that you will almost certainly face as a packager is a bug in the software itself or in your packaging. Packaging bugs are often fairly easy and straightforward to fix. However, as packagers often act as the initial contact for software bugs for the users of their distribution(s), they also implement temporary fixes and are responsible for forwarding bug reports and fixes to the original (upstream) authors.
The Ubuntu Bug Squad is the Quality Assurance (QA) team for Ubuntu. The people in the team work tirelessly to make Ubuntu a better place. They keep track of all the bugs in the Ubuntu Distribution and make sure that major bugs don't go unnoticed by the developers. Anyone can join the Bug Squad and it is a great entry point for people wanting to contribute to Ubuntu. The Bug Squad can be found on the #ubuntu-bugs IRC channel on irc.freenode.net