On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:00:53AM -0400, A. Costa wrote: > On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 04:33:28 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > > j2re1.4 isn't part of Debian, so we can't accept bugs on it. Please send > > this to wherever you got the package. > > Never do I wish to spam the fine BTS. But what puzzles me is how > there's a BTS page for 'jre1.4'.
That's because other people have reported bugs on j2re1.4, and the BTS obligingly indexes them. This is intentional: the BTS accepts bugs on unknown packages in order that humans can reassign them to the proper place, or close them, rather than having them rejected by a machine. This is generally friendlier to bug reporters, and reduces our chances of having useful bug reports lost due to (common) combinations of typos and mail delivery problems. > (Bear with me on my error trail...) The typos were not submitted. > Since the page existed, it logically followed that Debian ought to > accept bugs for any package the BTS has a slot for. The project accepts bugs for packages where a maintainer is listed. No maintainer is listed for j2re1.4; you can conclude from this that bugs reported against it will not go anywhere useful. > 1) Has this "ghost package" bug been submitted? I'm not even > sure where to look for it -- I'd appreciate if you could point > out where, if you know that it exists. It's not a bug. Please do not report it as such. > (BTW: a suggested fix -- have any current archive pages for packages > like this warn that they accept NO INPUT, and have the bug server > bounce any messages to foreign packages. Don't make any new pages > like this. But keep the old ones; deleting them from the archives > would make holes in the bug count. ) We made an intentional decision several years ago not to bounce bugs to unknown packages. However, I've changed pkgreport.cgi to print a helpful message when a package has no maintainer. I hope that helps. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
