Re: RFC: Prospective NMU of ndoutils-nagios3-mysql to close #607925
Konstantin Khomoutov schrieb am Monday, den 10. January 2011:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:51:32PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 15:39:17 +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> > > Hmm, well, this does not strictly relate to this bug, but I think that
> > > would be cool if the script performing removals would also send a
> > > message to the NNNN@bugs.debian.org so that the persons subscribed to it
> > > were set aware of the removal; otherwise I've no idea how would I know
> > > the package is removed.
> > > Should I raise this on debian-devel (after the release probably)?
> > >
> > A mail is sent to the pts for that package. I don't think tying it to a
> > particular bug makes a lot of sense.
> My reasoning is as follows:
> * I have spotted a bug in a particular package and filed a bug report
> against it; thus I got auto-subscribed to that bug, and only to it
> with regard to that package.
> * The package got removed because of that bug.
> * Since the only my involvement with that package was filing that bug,
> I remain blissfully unaware of what really presents a big problem for
> me, the bug originator; something I'll have to deal with in some way.
> IOW, the removal just silently happened behind my back.
>
> Sure, I could subscribe to the package in its QA page, but it has no
> sense for a casual user who just filed a bug. I'd also argue that it has
> not much sense for a "power user" like me as I did not intend to took
> over the maintenance of that package or something like this.
Any new about the NMU?
Alex
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