Hi! I disagree with making this RC right now, for the following reasons:
> Bugs against backported packages (~bpo versions) are not allowed > to be reported to the BTS without explicit permission from the > maintainer to do so 1. There is no automated way for the maintainers to agree to that currently, formally (but see below). >, and should instead automatically be sent > to debian-backpo...@lists.debian.org 2. This is normally the backporter’s duty: reportbug supports a Bugs: field in debian/control which lists an eMail address where bugreports should be sent to; for an example of a package using this, look at e.g. my wtf package: https://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/dists/sarge/wtf/Pkgs/wtf/wtf_20161111_all.deb 3. Absense of such a field *could*, however, be seen as maintainer approval of bugreports in the BTS (especially if the backporter is the maintainer), so there’s nothing that reportbug should do at the moment. 4. Due to the above, I believe a short-circuit/knee-jerk reaction to force reportbug to deliver _all_ bpo bugreports to the bpo mailing list is wrong, and this should at the least be tagged with stretch-ignore and discussed more broadly. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
