On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > Please, as a courtesy, when you reassign a bug report to another > package, cc it to the package maintainer, and put enough information in > so they can know why their package is at fault. Also check the severity > to make sure it makes sense for the new package. In fact, this is good > practice whenever you're doing anything with the BTS control@ that > impacts another developer's bug reports.
Note, you don't have to actually cc the maintainer email, as that can be difficult to look up. A simple cc to <package>@packages.debian.org would suffice.
