Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Many Progeny users files a bug on APT asking that it support clusters
> > better. I having no interest in that stuff so I drop it on a shelf for all
> > eternity.
>
> But that's very argumentative, and asks that the bug tools know the
> interests of each and every packages maintainers, authors and
> distributors. I don't think that is in the realm of the bug tracking
> tools, or bug tracking policy.
Well no, it just requires that all bugs go to the vendor before they are
cleared out.
> But what if we are interested in it? What if the Debian package
> maintainers is already working on such a feature?
Heh this is already happening II'm sure.
> Uh, integration bugs could be a Debian problem. It could be that a new
> Debian library upload made changes that were binary incompatible, and
If I pop in a Progeny and install it and stuff does not work then you
better belive Progeny is the one who should get the bug reports.
> Anyway, the real solution to this is not "if they have dist 'foo' all bugs
> go to them". The better solution for what Progeny wants is for there to be
> a global Origin for a particular "Release". Apt does know about releases,
> so maybe Apt can offer up something in it's cache that reportbug can query.
Well, the best solution is that if you start mixing and matching
Debian.org, Progeny, Stormix, etc then you will want to probably do
something else..
The only way I can see to solve that aside from mass recompiles is to get
APT involved and have it do tagging based on where the package came from.
(For these general shared packages I describe)
Jason
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