On Fri, 04 May 2018, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 11:25:44PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > 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. > > who do you think should do/decide this then? This should either be part of the debian policy or being decided by the GR. We/I decided that once, several years ago (after we got official) and received a lot complaints afterwards. We reverted the decision then until there is better support in the BTS. Alex
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