Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

[Sandro Tosi]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:20, Olivier Berger
<olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu> wrote:
> Le samedi 17 octobre 2009 à 23:27 +0200, Joachim Breitner a écrit :
>
>> just an idea that occured to me right now when filing a bug against a
>> package where I already know that it’s an upstream bug, but I don’t want
>> to spend time finding out
>>  * where the upstream bugtracker is
>>  and
>>  * how to properly list all upstream bugs.
>>
>
> Such information is already used by bts-link to track changes on remote
> bugs linked with the 'forwarded' tag from Debian bugs.
>
> The sources of bts-link ('s configuration file) contain already a
> description of many bugtrackers of source packages.
>
> More details at : http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/

While it is true that bts-link contains several references to upstream
issue tracking sysmtes, please note that:

- the list is maintained by hand
- with a particular formatting an-hoc for the tool
- by people not related to the packaging effort

so I don't see it as the canonical place where too look at, but would
probably work as a good starting point for the list preparation.

bts-link would probably become a client of such a Upstream Issue
Tracking sys once it will be available.

Regards,
-- 
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