On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:26:12AM +0000, Ben Finney wrote: > Please follow <URL:http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct> > and avoid sending messages individually to someone when the message is > also sent to the list, unless they ask for it.
… > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:01:19AM +0000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > The Debian BTS is already on the list of places to go for > > > information about Debian package changes. The proposal in this > > > thread doesn't increase that. > > > > For _debian_ packagers yes. But such a tool would be useful for > > upstreams, and form them it *is* one another place to look at. And > > most wont, because for large upstreams, there's this huge userbase > > you see, and the huge number of downstreams, and huge number of > > downstreams issue trackers. They can't look at them all. > > So it's already the case that they have a certain number of places to > look, *including* the Debian BTS if the work is packaged for Debian. I > don't see that this proposal changes that. That's why the proposal is bad. It doesn't improve that, and it requires more work from the maintainer. Lose/lose situation. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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