Bob Proulx wrote:
> Glenn Morris working on Emacs (and I am sure others) wanted to use the > Debian BTS for Emacs rather than the Savannah tracker. Therefore > Glenn talked the FSF admins into setting up a VM debbugs.gnu.org for > the purpose of hosting a GNU instance of the Debian BTS. Then > converted Emacs over to using the BTS. Not a big deal, but for the sake of historical accuracy, the initial setup was not my doing, nor did I talk anybody into anything. Emacs started using it thanks to Don Armstrong and Chong Yidong, I just ended up maintaining it for several years after that. Refs https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01731.html https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00486.html