Le Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Santiago Vila écrivait: > Perhaps we should open the Bug System to upstream maintainers by adding a > flag to every package. If this flag is on, reports are automatically > forwarded to a given upstream email address. I'm sure many upstream > authors would ask this flag to be enabled for their packages, even if this > means a small percentage of received bugs happen to be packaging bugs > which would not have to be forwarded in normal circumstances.
I can't believe it, usually I don't agree with you but here I do ! That's a pretty good idea. I'm sure that for most of the packages, there aren't that much Debian specific bugs and since the author can choose I don't see a reason not to implement it. Even better anybody should be able to register himself in the BTS so that he'll get all the bugreports for a specific package (or source package, but that's something more difficult to implement I guess) ... this would allow several maintainer to maintain the same package without using an alias or a list. Adding to this the possibility to have architecture specific bugs, and distribution specific bugs, and we'll have the best BTS around the world. Ok, who does it ? ;-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd Formations Linux et logiciels libres : http://www.logidee.com </pub>