Dear -devel: Following the trend to add metadata to the debian/control file that allows for the creation of new and powerful tools, I thought about the usefulness of a header that'd allow to automatically relate to upstream bug trackers.
It could be used to automatically forward bugs, track which bugs are open that we don't know about today, and simply to avoid the need to look up manually where should one submit a bug. So, my proposal would be to add two headers that are better explained by an example: Upstream-Bug-Browser: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=WWW-Curl Upstream-Bug-Submitter: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=WWW-Curl This could easily support systems where submission is by email. And if there's no bug tracking system, the upstream maintainer email could be used, without adding the -Browser header. What do you think of this? -- Martín Ferrari