Re: Backports bugs in the BTS
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 03:02:11PM +0200, Rhonda D'Vine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> [2017-05-08 13:56:13 CEST]:
> > Version tracking allows easy tracking of issues in the BTS,
> > but for being effective this cannot be a per-maintainer choice.
>
> Well. The missing version-tracking for backports is only one thing
> that the BTS is lacking - a different view on who's the maintainer of
> the package is the more important thing that people object to. The BTS
> does know only one maintainer of a package and takes that information
> from unstable - to account for the fact that an upload to stable isn't
> needed to change maintainer role of a package and get notified of bugs.
>
> And not all uploaders/backporters are part of the package team for
> unstable for the backports they maintain. I agree with you that the
> missing version support is usually not that big of a deal (I still have
> the impression that people could/should learn more about version
> tracking and how it works). But the different maintainer view and thus
> different notification list would be a crucial part to get into the BTS
> before it can be recommended to use for backports properly.
One half of this would need BTS support, the other not necessarily:
Not notifying the normal maintainer on bugs reported against backports
is something where I don't see a solution without BTS support.
Also notifying the backporter could be implemented by reportbug adding
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-backports@lists.debian.org
when the version contains ~bpo
> Enjoy,
> Rhonda
cu
Adrian
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