Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

[Don Armstrong]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> @dons: What are your requirements until you will accept this feature on
> bugs.d.o, in terms of number of packages or clear consensus on d-devel
> or such or actual inclusion in the policy?

Depends on the complexity of me actually getting the information to
the bts,[0] but assuming that there's:

1) a clear consensus on the methodology to make/update the links[1]

2) a tab-delineated text file generated somewhere[2] with the source
package name in the first field, the link to the upstream bts in the
second, and the wiki page on wiki.debian.org for additional bug
reporting/triage information in the third

3) enough source packages implementing #1 for me to actually test it;
I imagine if we get at least a half dozen packages from different
maintainers it'll be enough to demonstrate that it's workable.

then I'll shove it into my queue to implement.


Don Armstrong

0: the more complexity, the longer it'll take; the actual code change
to debbugs is relatively trivial.

1: probably a good idea to also have a draft for inclusion in
devel-reference

2: where this is depends on the method, but probably ftpmaster is the
ideal place; dunno, though.

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