Hi, To many backporters do not follow the mailing list closely to reasonable handle reports [*]. For packages where the Maintainer is also the backporter, it would be nice if users could be asked to report bugs to the Debian BTS. That's easy to achieve if people just use reportbug. Unfortunately this won't work for the other packages. Asking people to check where the bug reports should go will not work, so this needs to get automated. Luckily, reportbug supports sending reports to different servers per package. Method 1: Putting a Bugs header in debian/control Bugs: mailto:debian-backports@lists.debian.org Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org See apt-cache show dpkg for an example of the latter. Method 2: Using /usr/share/bug/$package/control: Send-To: bugs.myproject.com See /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers.gz. I would propose making having one of the two Bugs: headers a requirement for backports. It is up to the backporter to decide which to use. (The Debian BTS doesn't properly support version tracking for backports, but this is fixable by the maintainer adding 'found' versions. For packages where this is not feasible or not wanted, the mailinglist will still do.) Christoph [*] I plead guilty -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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