On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 03:46:02PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: >On Mon, 8 May 2017 16:29:06 +0200 (CEST) > >The existing support in reportbug would seem sufficient, albeit that is >seems under-utilised. > >In general, I see no reason for bugs in backported versions to be >automatically hidden from the maintainers - if it is desired, it should >be an opt-out, just as it is currently. > >Policy reflects reality and can change, it doesn't have to be a stick to >hit those who are being reasonable in their expectations and workload. > >FWIW I would never add such a field to debian/control for packages >which I backport and maintain. Personally, I think such division is >only of historical interest, dating from the time when backports was >not in the main archive. I haven't seen a good use case for the >separation after that point.
Agreed - I've neved wanted such a separation for my packages and it only makes it harder to track bugs in backports. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list Reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
