Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support

2000-11-28 Thread Chris Waters
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:48:46PM -0900, Britton wrote: > > In other words, we have no way to control what "baddies" do with > > Debian. The best we can do is make it easy and convenient for > > "goodies" to do the right thing (whatever that may be). The entire > > discussion about trying to pr

Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support

2000-11-28 Thread Britton
> In other words, we have no way to control what "baddies" do with > Debian. The best we can do is make it easy and convenient for > "goodies" to do the right thing (whatever that may be). The entire > discussion about trying to prevent "bug report hoarding" is futile and > moot -- we have no co

Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support

2000-11-28 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:35:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would it be technically feasable for a VAD (value-added distributor) to > be able to tee a bug report, that is have it go to them, AND go to Debian > with a flag stating that the VAD also has the bug? It is technically feasible

Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 08:17:01PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Heh, without saying too much, commercial entities working with GPL > software does not mean that they will turn in bug reports and fixes > upstream, nor does it mean they mind working with custom patches. This is A lot of what you're

Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support

2000-11-28 Thread ferret
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Britton wrote: > > > > > Origin: Debian > > > > Bugs-To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Which is clearly entirely reasonable and legitimate. > > > > > > No, it's not. If you want to make a package special instead of making it > > > an integral part of Debian cha