Re: [Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>] General bug policy

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> [A big part snipped as I agree to it.]
> 
> > 4. Noone but the maintainer of a package (or someone acting on their
> > request) should close its bug reports.
> 
> I'm not sure if this acceptable anymore as we are starting to revive
> the qa-team. In some situationt they also need the right to close a bug
> report and so we need to make the above statement clearer than now.
> 

However I have had a bug or three closed by someone else -- for the wrong
package.  Most recently was an anacron bug that was closed by the ytalk maint.
It was an accident, he fixed it the moment I told him, but it should not be
possible to do.

Now, perhaps a provision that mail from debian-qa that is signed is allowed,
but beyond that it is trivial to compromise our bug system currently.