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base is worse than general (Re: Bug#837723: Removing/Disabling the general psuedo package; refering to debian-user@lists.debian.org



On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 06:23:48PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Sorry if this has been brought up already. Another option would be to
> change the mapping of package:general from debian-devel@ldo to
> debian-user@ldo. I guess this has a similar effect (getting help in
> triaging the problem) without the unpleasant side effect of an
> auto-responder or a message+exit in reportbug.
> 
> Anyway, I'd be very happy to see a change here; the "general" bugs on
> -devel lead to nothing except frustration on all sides in my
> experience.

I'm not sure sending them to debian-user@ will be much better, as long
as no DDs are reading -user (not sure if that is the case.)

which reminds me: 

have a look at https://bugs.debian.org/base and you will see 59 similar
bugs which noone is triaging anymore…

I though we once had consensus to remove the base pseudo-package
alltogether…


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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