Subject: Upstream maintainer in control file

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 20:16:21 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi all,

I got a request from Jim Meyering (gnu maintainer shellutils, textutils,
fileutils etc.) whether or not he could get the bug-reports filed against
his packages.

I asked Ian J. about this but he couldn't come up with something more than
adding the mainstream maintainer in the maintainer field.  He said that
isn't a good suggestion and I think that it isn't as well.

Nevertheless I think that we can solve this by Adding an optional field
to the Source part of the new control file: Upstream or Upstream-Maintainer
with his/her preferred mail adress and optionally the name of the
Maintainer.  Sometimes it is difficult to point to the upstream maintainer
because it is a large group of people.  If this Upstream-Maintainer field
exists the bug report system should add an small informative message to the
bugreport and sent it to the Upstream-Maintainer.

Opinions? Suggestions? Anyone? Ian?

Erick.

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From: Steve Greenland <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:46:30 -0500 (CDT)

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> [upstream maintainers getting debian bug reports]
> 

It seems like this is one of the debian maintainers duties. It seems
unlikely to me that most upstream maintainers are going to want to
to see most of the bug reports, which tend to be packaging issues.

Steve Greenland

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