Re: please cc summary to maintainer when reassigning bugs
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> Please, as a courtesy, when you reassign a bug report to another
> package, cc it to the package maintainer, and put enough information in
> so they can know why their package is at fault. Also check the severity
> to make sure it makes sense for the new package. In fact, this is good
> practice whenever you're doing anything with the BTS control@ that
> impacts another developer's bug reports.
Note, you don't have to actually cc the maintainer email, as that can be
difficult to look up. A simple cc to <package>@packages.debian.org would
suffice.
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