Hi. For now users of packages from BPO have to send a mail to debian-backports mailing-list, according to [1]. I don't know how you handle those bugs, but they seem very easy to miss (even if d-b@l.d.o isn't a high traffic list).
I was wondering if it makes sense to ask (kindly) debbugs's maintainer to add new special tags (e.g. “squeeze-backports”, “lenny-backports”) that would work exactly like “sid”, “squeeze”, … tags that we already have. It would help to have a better integration of BPO and makes bugreporting less confusing for users. When implemented in debbugs, reportbug could automatically add those tags if the package comes from BPO. >From a maintainer point of view, this could mean more burden. But, if ever implemented, debbugs can send a copy of the bugreport to the backporter only, and avoid sending it to the usual maintainer of the package. What do you think? - from debbugs POV, is it feasible? - from maintainers POV, would you accept that? - from backports FTP masters POV, do you think it's a good idea? If we can't agree on this proposal, can somebody tell me why we didn't try to have a BTS for backports? I personally think that we could have those bugreports on bugs.d.o directly and that there is no need for another instance of debbugs, because their number isn't insane, as most of us tend to think. [1] http://backports.debian.org/FAQ/ Regards, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dee3d9a.3080...@dogguy.org