Hi all, I got a request from Jim Meyering (gnu maintainer shellutils, textutils, fileutils etc.) whether or not he could get the bug-reports filed against his packages.
I asked Ian J. about this but he couldn't come up with something more than adding the mainstream maintainer in the maintainer field. He said that isn't a good suggestion and I think that it isn't as well. Nevertheless I think that we can solve this by Adding an optional field to the Source part of the new control file: Upstream or Upstream-Maintainer with his/her preferred mail adress and optionally the name of the Maintainer. Sometimes it is difficult to point to the upstream maintainer because it is a large group of people. If this Upstream-Maintainer field exists the bug report system should add an small informative message to the bugreport and sent it to the Upstream-Maintainer. Opinions? Suggestions? Anyone? Ian? Erick.