Bug#820378: Ensure users report bugs in BTS and not to upstream directly

2016-04-08 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Unfortunately, there is no obvious way to file a bug from the URL used: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xscreensaver;dist=unstable I agree. A button to run `reportbug xscreensaver` or similar might be nice, but I understand maintainer's concern about this encouraging

Bug#820378: Ensure users report bugs in BTS and not to upstream directly

2016-04-08 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2016-04-08 03:55:33, Peter Nowee wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 04:08:57PM -0400, anarcat wrote: [... about unstable vs stable ... fine with that.] >> We are doing a poor job at helping people file bugs, generally. I >> usually point people to: >> >> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Bug#820378: Ensure users report bugs in BTS and not to upstream directly

2016-04-08 Thread Tormod Volden
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 21:22:22 +0200 Tormod Volden wrote: >> According to upstream, a lot of Debian stable users send bug reports >> about the xscreensaver package directly to him. > > I note that upstream is or was subscribed to Debian bug reports

Bug#820378: Ensure users report bugs in BTS and not to upstream directly

2016-04-08 Thread Peter Nowee
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 04:08:57PM -0400, anarcat wrote: > I think this patch is a great idea! > > Unfortunately, there is no obvious way to file a bug from the URL used: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xscreensaver;dist=unstable > > (that is the target of the

Bug#820378: Ensure users report bugs in BTS and not to upstream directly

2016-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 21:22:22 +0200 Tormod Volden wrote: > According to upstream, a lot of Debian stable users send bug reports > about the xscreensaver package directly to him. I note that upstream is or was subscribed to Debian bug reports too.   > Apparently the xscreensaver user interface

Bug#820378: Ensure users report bugs in BTS and not to upstream directly

2016-04-07 Thread anarcat
I think this patch is a great idea! Unfortunately, there is no obvious way to file a bug from the URL used: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xscreensaver;dist=unstable (that is the target of the redirection.) We are doing a poor job at helping people file bugs, generally. I

Bug#820378: Ensure users report bugs in BTS and not to upstream directly

2016-04-07 Thread Tormod Volden
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.30-1+deb8u1 X-Debbugs-CC: Peter Nowee According to upstream, a lot of Debian stable users send bug reports about the xscreensaver package directly to him. Since many of the bugs already have been fixed in later upstream releases (and in