Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors
Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org> writes:
> while working on a package I'm going to sponsor, it occurred to me
> with all the DD, DM and sponsoring going on, that I'd like to have a
> field in debian/control, like eg.
>
> Bugs-To: some_dd@debian.org, ...
In the source package stanza, or the binary package stanza?
> to have some_dd@debian.org automatically subscribed to the bugs for
> this package, much in the same vein as the 'Uploaders:' field works.
This appears to duplicate functionality of the Package Tracking System
<URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#pkg-tracking-system>.
Why is the PTS insufficient for this purpose?
(I'm not weighing in either way, I just think that adding duplicate
behaviour needs justification one way or another.)
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