On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:52:15PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > 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.
Some time in the last millenium, there was general tentative agreement that there should be a package header which is an email address for reporting of bugs, and that [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be the default. I seem to recall that that died because of a mix about concerns with backwards compatability with dpkg (which could have been worked around by abusing some Description: in some fashion), and concern about the long term stability of email addresses (but few thought it a good idea to have debian host some kind of updatable list of bug contact addresses). FYI, -- Raul
