On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 21:22:22 +0200 Tormod Volden wrote: >> According to upstream, a lot of Debian stable users send bug reports >> about the xscreensaver package directly to him. > > I note that upstream is or was subscribed to Debian bug reports too.
I think that is irrelevant. The issue is about users sending bug reports /directly/ to upstream, whereas they should be sent to the BTS. > >> Apparently the xscreensaver user interface encourages e-mailing of bug >> reports directly upstream. We should try to change this, so that the >> normal flow of bug reports go to the Debian bug tracker, and anything >> relevant for upstream gets forwarded from there as usual. > > Given his subscription to Debian bug reports I wonder if redirecting > Debian bug reporters from upstream to Debian+upstream will be enough to > prevent upstream from being annoyed by Debian users using old versions? We don't have to speculate about what will annoy upstream or not. We should do the right thing, the users should do the right thing, and upstream is free to be annoyed about whatever. If he will be annoyed by people reporting bugs to BTS that is outside our competence. Tormod
