Bug#278657: apt: Bug (?) on order for selecting candidate packages
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:39:55PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > We did better; we modified reportbug itself to default to sending bugs to
> > us, to avoid this kind of thing the best we could.
>
> Why is that better than using the standard Debian infrastructure? That
> approach if someone mixes Ubuntu and Debian packages and uses the Debian
> reportbug or bug tools.
It is better because there is less chance for error. Mixing Ubuntu and
Debian packages is a bad idea because we use different builds of the same
source packages, and this is documented in our FAQ. Even if the user is
installing Debian packages, we do not want them to report bugs to Debian,
because they could be Ubuntu-specific.
It also happens to be quite a lot simpler than patching 9000 source
packages, or hacking dpkg-gencontrol, or dpkg, or similar solutions in order
to get the proper Bugs: header into the status file when the package is
installed.
If you have a suggestion for a different approach which is simple,
maintainable and global, let me know.
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- mdz
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