Bug#278657: apt: Bug (?) on order for selecting candidate packages
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.
> The only further thing that I think could be done would be to modify
> Debian's reportbug to try to guess if it's running on an Ubuntu system.
I highly disagree with that. Debian has had an excellent infrastructure
to solve this problem for a few years now, working around that sounds
silly.
Wichert.
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