On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Santiago Vila wrote: > > You are assuming that there are already bugs in general regarding > > this which should be usertagged. > > If they're aren't bugs existing to which you would reassign to a > packages.debian.org virtual package, then what are we talking about > here?
It's not about the reported bugs I'm talking about, but about the unreported ones, i.e. the bugs which are not reported *because* there is not a packages.debian.org virtual package. > In order for there actually to be a virtual package, the people who > are actually going to use the virtual package (IE, those who maintain > packages.debian.org) need to come forward and say that they're going > to use it, and (if they expect me to create it) demonstrate that > they're going to use it. Otherwise, creating it is pointless (or > worse, because bug reporters would then expect someone to deal with > the bugs, which isn't going to happen.) The BTS is (among other things) a universal way to reach whoever is assigned a task in debian to report a bug. The fact that you can report a bug against a real package by default, but not against a *.debian.org server by default does not mean package maintainers have more reasons to be reachable via the BTS than the maintainers of the different *.debian.org services. This is as if you, BTS people, in the name of Debian, concede the right for a *.debian.org server administrator not to receive bugs about a task which is his/her responsability, but does not do the same (concede equal right) for ordinary package maintainers. > It's not the BTS administrator's place to determine how different > teams want to organize their workflow. Fantastic. May I explicitly request that I do not wish to receive bugs against one or all of my packages via the BTS and that I want to "organize my workflow" by another means? Perhaps it's not the BTS administrator's place to determine such thing, but maybe it's not the different teams's place either. Do you think I need a general resolution for "all *.debian.org servers should have a virtual package to report bugs in the BTS"? I thought it would be considered of common sense. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
