On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:40:44PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > The BTS tracks bugs per-package. When bugs are known or at least suspected > > to be in a particular package, they're assigned in it. I don't find it > > suitable to use particular packages as general place-holders. In this > > situations we normaly use virtual BTS entries (e.g., general, wnpp, etc). > > > > If what we actualy need is a BTS entry for the system in general (e.g., > > gnu), > > this should be requested to the BTS admins (by using the BTS, of course). > > Using the "general" virtual package. > > I'd be fine with this (in general, I leave this to Jeff to decide if > he wants to go for it). The point here is that we don't want to > bother individual package maintainers with the bug reports they can't > do nothing about, and provide them with a package to assign it to. > > So far the hurd package has been used for this purpose (not often, but > a couple of times). That's what I said above. If a better solution > is acceptable and preferred in Debian, then that's just as fine.
Jeff. Do you agree? -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
