On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:54:41PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:59:40 +0000 (UTC), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) said: > > > packages? If a derived distro wants to get bugreports for a > > modified package they have to change it anyway and don't > > need to modify /etc/dpkg/origins/debian. If they don't then > > the default setup is just fine. > > I disagree. It doesn't seem right to use Debian volunteers to > handle bugs for a package in our commercial product, even if it > is the exact same package. Since we're being paid to do this, > *all* bugs should come to us first. If it's our fault, we fix it > and the Debian devloper never sees it. If it's something not our > fault, but we can fix it, the developer benefits from us (which > we want). If it's not something we can fix, we forward it over to > him. > > This results in a better Debian, without burdening volunteer > developers with things that aren't their fault.
Then what if someone installs a Debian package on your distribution? How does that get handled? What if someone wants to integrate a set of packages from another source (not a distribution) with Debian or Progeny (can we say helix)? IMO, Progeny should only get bug reports for packages that they intentionally changed. Further more, I don't think distributions should take over Debian's job. Progeny and other offshoots exist on top of Debian, which is the core. To say that you want all bug reports from all packages installed under Progeny, whether they are from progeny or not, is basically hording. As much as we trust Progeny, because of it's roots and it's employees, we don't want to start a precedent where an offshoot distribution can horde fixes and bug reports that Debian should know about. Obviously this can be done without or without your implied functionality, but I don't think we want to support this within Debian. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
