On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be > > addressed. Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if they're > > involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are supposed to > > be forwarded upstream (with a patch if one is available). That is part of > > the Debian philosophy.
Perhaps we should open the Bug System to upstream maintainers by adding a flag to every package. If this flag is on, reports are automatically forwarded to a given upstream email address. I'm sure many upstream authors would ask this flag to be enabled for their packages, even if this means a small percentage of received bugs happen to be packaging bugs which would not have to be forwarded in normal circumstances. Thanks. -- "1eecd7e6dc4c525a66434ff1e829bb20" (a truly random sig)
