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Re: About new fields in debian/control for bug reporting.



>>>>> "Itai" == Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com> writes:

    >> For instance, say I wanted to distribute my own copy of ssh,
    >> with Kerberos support, but didn't want to bug the ssh
    >> maintainer about this (yet). I want bug reports to come to
    >> me...

    Itai> Why wouldn't you set the maintainer field of this package to
    Itai> yourself?

    Itai> Then you could set Origin: Maintainer, the package would (I
    Itai> hope) be rejected by the Debian dupload (it doesn't have
    Itai> Origin: Debian), and bug reports would go to you...

Sounds like an excellent idea...
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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