On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:20:32AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > 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).
This seems to be partly implemented by the control file mentioned in this sub-thread. My proposal is only an interim solution until we have implemented it fully, in order to ease the transition to nonfree.org. Michael
