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Re: Debian Bug Tracker



On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:26:40PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 11.53, ssb2@dcs.qmul.ac.uk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a university student at Queen Mary, University of London and I am
> > doing some research for my dissertation. Please could you help me. I just
> > wanted to know if your bug tracking system:
> > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
> > is intended solely for the use of reporting bugs found within Debian
> > packages, or can it be used by any company as a project tool, to keep
> > track of bugs identified in packages that they are developing.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The Debian Bug Tracking System (Debian BTS) software can be downloaded as 
> Debian package "debbugs", so anybody can install this system on his own 
> machine.
> 
> HOWEVER, the software in the debbugs package is, I believe, severely out of 
> date when compared with the software actually installed on 
> http://bugs.debian.org/

That's not actually true. Yes, the version on bugs.debian.org has seen
some updates which are not reflected in the package; but AFAICS, those
are only updates to configuration, not additional features.

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