Your message dated Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:15:42 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#319020: reportbug: Could advertise the PTS for
packages which are not very popular
has caused the Debian Bug report #319020,
regarding reportbug: Could advertise the PTS for packages which are not very
popular
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: reportbug
Version: 3.8
Severity: wishlist
As member of the Debian QA Group I try to think of ways to improve the
overall quality of Debian. One way is to have more contributors for each
package... and to get external people involved I encourage them to
subscribe to the PTS for the packages that they care about.
People submitting bug reports are usually people caring about a package so
I think we should try to catch their attention and to propose them to
subscribe to the PTS of the package on which they're submitting a bug
report.
To avoid asking for contributors on packages which do not need help,
reportbug could use the stats from the following file:
http://master.debian.org/~hertzog/pts/count.txt
Source packages not listed there have no PTS subscribers. The figures
indicates how many people are subscribed to the PTS of each package.
If the number is below 4, then the package needs more external
contributors and reportbug should try to catch the attention of someone
submitting a bug on the indicated package.
Subscribing to the PTS can be done by mailing [email protected]
with "subscribe <srcpkg>" in the body. The user will then receive a
confirmation mail. You could also point him to
http://packages.qa.debian.org/<srcpkg>
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
the PTS has been replaced by tracker.debian.org, and the subscription
count file this idea was built on
(packages.qa.debian.org/data/pts-subscription-count.txt) is gone: the
URL now redirects to the tracker's home page.
As I wrote back in 2010, I'm also not keen on adding another step to a
tool meant to report bugs, so I'm closing this. If you still think a
pointer to tracker.debian.org would help, please open a new bug with a
concrete proposal.
Regards,
Sandro
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