On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:46:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > > But when someone takes my package and uploads it somewhere other > > than the main Debian archive, they incur *all* the responsibilities > > of maintaining that package, including the responsibility of > > appropriately triaging bug reports and forwarding them to the > > maintainer when relevant. You don't get to decide that I should > > spend my limited Debian time triaging bugs for someone else's > > version of my package. > There are separate aspects to bugs in backported packages. > A. Where the bug exists: > 1) Main version only > 2) Backported version only > 3) Both > B. Where the bug is filed > 1) Main version > 2) Backported version > The main maintainer cares about A.1 & A.3, but (optionally?) not A.2; > the backported maintainer cares about A.2 & A.3, but probably not 1. > Currently, the BTS does not correctly handle backport branches (we > also don't properly handle -p-u or security). > Ideally, it would be possible to have bugs filed against the BTS, with > the assumption that if a bug was filed only against a backport version > (B.2), it was the backported version maintainer's responsibility to > deal with the bug, and fix the versions as appropriate if it actually > affects the main version of the package. > If the bug only affects the backport, then it should have a special > tag set (backport), and maintainers who didn't want to know about the > backport branch could filter out bug mail (and bugs) which had that > tag set. That sounds pretty sensible to me. Thanks for putting the effort into this. Cheers, -- 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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