Re: RFC: upstream-link in the BTS and package descriptions
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:16:46AM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > But you should report them using the Debian BTS. Debian is your
> > "software vendor", and we are the ones who should hear about
> > bugs/feature requests. If the bug report needs to be forwarded
> > upstream, we have a specific tag in our BTS to indicate that.
>
> Well and we as the "vendor-team" could save some time of our members
> if there would be such an upstream link.
Once upon a time there was a proposal for a parseable copyright file,
but nothing was ever agreed.
> If I decide to fix some bug as NMU I would really like to have a
> look at upstream before. It would save some time if the URL would
> be available easily without having to install the package before.
You NMU packages without installing both the old and new versions?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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