Lucas Nussbaum schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. September 2010: Hi,
> > > 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. > > Now that backports are becoming official, I think that it is the right > time to reconsider the maintenance model of backports. I would > personally prefer if we had the same rules of packages ownership as for > normal packages ("normal" backport maintainer = maintainer of the > package in unstable). I completly disagree here. backports are different and I don't think I'll ever treat them as you like. Thats exactly the type of bureaucracy I feared when I got asked if I want to have backports official. Don't expect that to happen until I am responsible for backports. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100907170724.ga12...@nelson.snow-crash.org