On Fri, 04 May 2018, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Maybe is the FAQ "outdated". > > Well. The FAQ is correct, it's the current bpo-policy, which by now and > as today became visible in two threads here, is outdated. I'd say: > > IMO it was a good idea many and some years ago, but today given > stable-backports wide appreciation, it seems outdated. > > However the old reason is still the same: backports can be done by any > DD (in the bpo keyring) and the unstable maintainer(s) might not > appreciate those bugreports. Despite that, I think this policy should be > changed and bpo bugreports should go to the BTS. Debian should recommend > using backports and if Debian does so, we should provide proper > bugreporting channels (which probably requires^wwould benefit from tuning > the BTS and/or reportbug). This is however not a change that should be done by the backports admins. Alex
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature