Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

"Daniel Leidert" <Daniel.Leidert.Spam@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few packages. Most of them got removed because newer versions were released. What about closing those reports, if an RM-request is filed?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=
>
> Regards, Daniel

I think for binary packages the bugs should be reassigned to (or at least
keep showing up for) the source package.

For the rest see other replies.

MfG
        Goswin