On 28/09/10 at 09:16 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:37:55AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > OK, thanks for the clarification. Still, we need to decide—sort of > > > now—whether we need to add support in reportbug for mailing backport > > > report bugs to the bpo list or not (and that might require some time, as > > > someone needs to do the work, coordinate with the reportbug maintainer > > > and with the release team, to check whether there's room to have the > > > change in testing or not). Do you think we should add such a support or > > > not? > > > > I don't think so. Reporting bugs to a mailing list sounds like a hack > > when you can use the BTS. > > That's not the point, is it? From this discussion is clear that the long > term solution is to use the BTS, but also that as of now the needed > support is not in place. So you can't simply veto the alternative > solution—unless you volunteer to add the needed support in the BTS. The > whole point of this whole sub-thread was estimating when the support > will be in place and, according to that, decide whether we should try to > get the "hack" in Squeeze or not.
So, until we can use the BTS to handle bugs reporting against backported packages, we have the following solutions: [A] continue to ask users to (manually) report bugs to a mailing list, and avoid the use of reportbug. backporters have to subscribe to that list. [B] add support in reportbug to report bugs against backported packages to a mailing list instead of sub...@bugs.d.o. backporters have to subscribe to that list. [C] ask users to simply use reportbug, have bugs filed in the BTS, possibly annoying maintainers that don't care about backports, since the infrastructure for auto-detecting backported packages is not in place. backporters have to subscribe to the package on the PTS. My preference goes to [C]. It's not that hard to ignore bugs if you don't care, and PTS-subscribing is probably a good idea if you care about a package enough to backport it anyway. - Lucas -- 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/20100928112946.ga5...@xanadu.blop.info