Package removals and the BTS

2003-07-11 Thread Lukas Geyer
Hi all, I was looking for old posts, because I was sure that this must have been discussed before, but I could not find any. When a package removal is requested, there is a bug filed against ftp.debian.org. Following procedures, the maintainer should also know about it (either filing it himself

Re: Package removals and the BTS

2003-07-11 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: [...] However, for other people browsing the BTS, and for orphaned packages, it would be much nicer if there was a bug filed against the package itself, or some remark on bugs.debian.org/package that its removal is requested. There

Re: Package removals and the BTS

2003-07-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: - The BTS is made aware of this, e.g. by having it possible to file a bug against two packages at once. This is already possible, but it isn't displayed quite properly because of some indexing problems. I hope this can be fixed at