Re: Bugs for packages which don't exist anymore / missing maintainer

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> writes:

> Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> writes:
>
>> "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> So I have several related questions:
>>>
>>> 1) In general, what should the maintainers do to prevent such cases?
>>> I guess that one could reassign the bugs from the old package to the
>>> new one, but it seems obvious that this can be oversought easily,
>>> especially for libpackages where SOVERSION changes often.  Is there
>>> any automatic mechanism in place to try to prevent this?
>>
>> Not that I know of, no. For packages that change name reasonably often
>> (or well, most library packages anyway), I'd think it would be best to
>> reassign the reports to the source package upon receipt, so that it
>> won't get lost.
>
> Normaly bugs for binary packages show up for the source package too.
>
> Why do these bugs loose that link to their source package? Have they
> been gone so long the package isn't even in old-stable anymore and the
> BTS doesn't record the source package anywhere?

Pretty much, yes.

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