Bug#513644: request for the creation of 'bts-link' pseudo-package

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Just a few comments, as the subject's just been discussed again on bts-link-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:43:07PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > I'd like to request the creation of 'bts-link' pseudo-package, in order to
> > provide a better "interface" for requests for 'bts-link' service.
> 
> I'd be down to create it, but I think that at some point in the future
> you'd all like to create a real live bts-link package to distribute
> alongside debbugs for people who run debbugs. [At least, I hope that's
> a future goal.] I

I'd personnaly wish to mature bts-link until a point in time when it would even be a generic tool not necessarily working only for debbugs (with its forwarded-to and usertags) but as a standalone app (which could of course work primarily in conjunction with debbugs, but not exclusively).

> 
> Psuedopackages do not transition to real packages elegantly. [At
> least, I think they don't.] (It's probably ok to shove a bts-link
> package into experimental for just this purpose.)
> 
> That said, assuming bts-link actually becomes integrated into b.d.o, I
> wouldn't be averse to you all having bugs that affect bts-link
> assigned to the bugs.debian.org pseudopackage, so long as you usertag
> them appropriately to segregate them out. 

I'm a bit afraid by the number of bugs on b.d.o, so I'm not sure it's worth adding more, but in any case, we can try that, according on a specific usertag, and maybe it will be a good test case for bug triaging tools ;)

Best regards,