Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Hmmm. Maybe Emacs' `M-x debian-bts-control' (from the dpkg-dev-el package) should offer to do that? Except that we more often use the control interface for our own bugs... Maybe it's shouldn't systematically prompt for that, but there could be a keybinging or menu entry to do that. Peter
