On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 04:18:48PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Doing a quick look at the backports mailing list archive, there are less > than 10 bugs reported per month on average. That is for hundreds of > packages. Doing some fuzzy math, if you have a package that got > backported, you may see an additional 10/100 = 0.1 bug reports per > month (or roughly one bug per year). I don't see how that could be > remotely considered overburdensome. A single package I'm comaintainer of that has a backports.org backport has received at least 12 bug reports to the BTS over the past year referencing bpo versions (not counting any that might have been retargeted using found/notfound after being filed). The reason there are few bug reports on the mailing list is because these *already* come to the BTS. For the package in question, the backports are done by a fellow comaintainer, so I'm not complaining about the bug traffic; but that doesn't mean it's *right* for that traffic to be going to the BTS by default. > Backports has now been declared "officially" supported by the project > as a whole. That made it the collective responsibility of all > Debian Developers whether or not individuals in particular like it or > not. False. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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