As the FTP Team member doing most of the the removals work, I think that would be a helpful change.
Scott K On January 1, 2019 11:07:50 PM UTC, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: >> Sometimes we need to report an RM bug against ftp.debian.org to >remove >> a binary package which is no longer built. >> >> reportbug deals with this in the interface for ftp.debian.org, asking >> you for the name of the which package you want removed. >> >> But then after you specify the binary package that needs to be >> removed, reportbug switches the Subject for the bug report to the >> source package instead of the binary package. This means the package >> needing removal is misrepresented and there is a danger the ftp team >> will remove the entire source package. Not the outcome we want. >> >> A recent example is #907513 requesting to remove mshr-demos. >> reportbug altered the Subject to mark mshr for removal instead of >> mshr-demos. (Fortunately Adrian Bunk saw and corrected the mistake). > >I'd be ok to remove the implicit conversion from binary to source >package when dealing with ftp.debian.org bugs >(https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/blob/master/reportbug/debbugs.py#L267-271) >but i need FTP masters to accept the change, here in CC > >Thanks,