About forwarding bugs and patches to Debian and documenting your changes

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Scott Kitterman wrote on 20/06/08 13:06:
>...
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>...
> I think it's rather a deficiency of Launchpad that there's no way to
> get such notifications to stop.  While I agree that particular bug was
> excessive, everyone will have a different threshold for how big is to
> big.  Tracking  bugs such as this one (I did a much smaller one to
> track python-xml removal during Hardy) can be very useful, but until
> Launchpad gives users a way to make such mail stop without
> unsubscribing from a package's bugs, it's not feasible to use them.
>...

"bug contacts should be able to unsubscribe from implicit subscriptions"
<http://launchpad.net/bugs/204980>.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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