On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:31:03AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Packages not distributed by Debian can take advantage of this > > > utility too. They just need to add a "send-to" header to the > > > control file /usr/share/bug/$package/control. > > > > A, nice, this would be fine for the users, but decidedly not for the > > maintainer. > > Why? Adding one single file to the package, which takes about 30 > seconds and must be done only once, is a huge burden?
I wonder whether it would be possible/helpful if reportbug would get modified so as to ask the user "You seemingly want to submit a bug for a non-free package to the Debian BTS. Debian does not distribute non-free anymore. Do you want to submit it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead [Y/n]?" Additionally, one should be able to tell reportbug to just use the alternative location. That would catch a lot of problems I guess, until the non-free packages have kept up with that /usr/share/bug/$package/control file. Michael
