Gert Wollny writes ("Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process"): > The only option I see for doing this in the BTS would be to ask the ftp > team to file the reject messages as a new bug against the source > package. I refrained from proposing this because this would mean filing > a bug against a package version that is not yet available in Debian. > Since the re-upload to NEW would have the same version like the version > the bug is filed against, the BTS might get a hiccup. For that reason I > originally proposed doing this with the salsa issue tracker.
Personally I think this Debian practice of reusing version numbers for different packages is absurd. If a package is rejected by ftpmaster (or by a sponsor, for that matter) the resubmission should have a new version number. Ian.