On Lu, 06 sep 10, 17:52:17, Ian Jackson wrote: > Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"): > > Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs > > relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the > > debian-backports [3] list, which have now also been moved to > > lists.debian.org [4]. > > What are the BTS limitations ? Perhaps it could be improved to > support backports too. Using mailing lists for this is a bit 1980's :-)
From what I understand it's the version tracking and the fact that backports can have a different Maintainer then the "regular" package. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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