About forwarding bugs and patches to Debian and documenting your changes

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 19/06/08 at 17:54 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > In the first case (one bug per package), I think that this creates a
> > huge overhead, and is not going to work. You will have problems
> > convincing people to file a bug each time they make a very simple change
> > that needs to be done in tens of packages.
> > 
> > In the second case, as long as there's a simple place with documentation
> > about the change, I'm happy. But I think that a wiki page is a better
> > solution because it's easier to summarize a problem (people can edit the
> > summary). With a bug report, you sometimes have to read a very long
> > discussion before you understand the current state of the issue.
> 
>  Please file a bug per package; using a single bug for multiple packages
>  which are not under the same maintenance causes painful spamming of
>  subscribers with no easy way to ignore traffic not related to the
>  package you care about.

Again, we are talking about simple, large-scale changes, like the
addition of libext-dev to the build-deps of many packages. I really
don't think it's necessary to file one bug per package to document such
changes.
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