On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ian Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > But in this case I don't think we should be "expecting" maintainers to > necessarily shepherd bug reports upstream. I don't think a maintainer > who fails to do so is failing in their job as maintainer. > > The maintainer should decide whether they think doing that is a useful > thing to be doing for that package or that bug, and communicate this > decision to the user (and set the bug state accordingly).
Maybe some tools (PTS) should warn about bugs that are older than X days and are still unclassified? Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

