Re: "Blacklists" in BTS (stopping the trolls and bug machines)

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

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Ond??ej Surý wrote:
> > examples would be useful
> 
> I have no big problem pointing fingers on d-d.
> 
> Example 1: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> 
> This: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707759
> Or this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709568

I think that is a bad example. The reported error does appear when
unpakcing php5-common even if it is not caused by the package directly
but by something (ucf) it uses. It is often not clear for users if the
bug is caused by passing the wrong arguments or by a bug in the tool
being used or that a tool from another package is used at all. As
maintainer you tend to have a better understanding and can more esily spot the right package to blame.

I don't think you handled that bug correctly. It was a valid bug and
you just closed it without fix. A simple "bts reassign 709568 ucf"
would have sufficed. 

> Or this duplicate bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707131

Wrong bug number? Did you mean #707237, which was filed a day after
707131?
 
MfG
	Goswin