On 06/06/08 at 17:35 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Package: developers-reference > Version: 3.3.9 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > if a bug in package A affects operation of package B, the bug will be > re-filed over and over against B if the maintainer of B just reassigns > the bug to A. > > I therefore suggest re-wording the first paragraph of bullet (2) in > chapter 5.8.3 to say: > > If the bug is real but it's caused by another package, just > reassign the bug to the right package. If you don't know which > package it should be reassigned to, you should ask for help on IRC > or on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please make sure that the > maintainer(s) of the package the bug is reassigned to know why you > reassigned it, for example by Cc:ing the message that does the > reassign to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and explaining why the > bug is reassigned. Please note that a reassignment is _not_ > e-mailed to the maintainers of the package being reassigned to, so > they are not going to see the bug until they do bug triage if you > don't Cc the reassignment. > > If the bug affects the operation of your package, please consider > cloning the bug and reassigning the clone to the package that > really causes the behavior to avoid the bug getting invisible in > your package's bug list which might cause users to report the same > bug over and over again. You might also want to block "your" bug > with "their" bug to document the relationship.
Sounds good. Could you prepare a patch against the devref tree found at svn.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference ? Maybe the current second paragraph of bullet (2) (about changing severity) could be moved to a separate bullet point as well. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
