Control: retitle -1 notify maintainers of affected bugs; possibly require it for orphaned bugs or wnpp bugs Control: severity -1 wishlist
On Sat, 03 Jan 2015, Holger Levsen wrote: > when someone else orphans a package, the maintainers of that package > are not automatically notified, as the bug is assigned to the wnpp > pseudo-package. Thus maintainers might not learn about this (it's > shown in the PTS, so it's not hidden), but there is no active > notification which I consider a bug. (And not just a wishlist missing > feature ;) It's a missing feature, because there's no way to automatically notify someone else who is not the maintainer. Presumably, the way to do this is to use affects in orphan bugs, and also have maintainers of affected packages receive messages about bugs which affect their packages. But that's an additional set of code which has not been written. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. -- W. S. Merwin "Poetry in Motion" p107 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
