Bug#644198: linux-2.6: Tell reportbug to use src:linux-2.6

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 05:40:55AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:27:00PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> >>> Can you please chang the bug control file to use:
> >>> Submit-As: src:linux-2.6
> >>> instead of the current:
> >>> Submit-As: linux-2.6
> >>
> >> What would be the benefit?
> >
> > That it's filed against an existing package, something the BTS
> > actually knows about?
> 
> To avoid confusion when people misfile bugs about a source package,
> it seems that the BTS invents a fake <package> binary package for any
> source package <package>.

>From where do you get that that is actually supported?   Are you sure
it's not just a bug somewhere in the BTS that it seems to work?

Maybe you should talk to Don about this?

> That's why
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/src:linux-2.6
> 
> lists kernel bugs filed against the linux-2.6 binary package, too,
> even though there is no actual linux-2.6 binary package in Debian.
> 
> So if that's the reason behind this proposal, I'm tempted to just
> close it.  The change would involve taking a risk with no upside to
> balance it.

What risk?

Would it be more clear that reportbug sends:
Source: linux-2.6
instead of:
Package: src:linux-2.6

(I don't know if it supports it, the BTS does for ages.)



Kurt