[Reportbug-maint] Bug#761206: patch to remove 'base' pseudo package

[Sandro Tosi]

Thanks Tomas for working on this!

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi Tomas,
>
> thanks for having jumped in dealing with these kinds of bugs. Much
> appreciated!
>
> On Donnerstag, 11. September 2014, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>> the attached patch implements the removal of the 'base' pseudo package
>> from reportbug.
>
> cool, thanks! (Though this should probably be re-send as a new wishlist bug
> against reportbut. #734053 is about removing the "base" pseudo package from
> the BTS.)
>
>> Additionally I'd like to ask if it'd be OK to at the same time reassign
>> the existing few bug reports from the 'base' package to the 'general'
>> package or to more specific packages (most of the 'base' bugs seem to
>> concern the kernel).
>
> rather assign them to the right package(s), those bugs don't belong to
> "general". Ping me if you have questions about how to handle specific bugs.

I'm actually not convinced to remove base from reportbug. I can
understand that several (if not most/all) of bugs against 'base' are
wrongly directly, but reportbug is just a tool to interact with the
BTS, so as long as BTS has 'base' I guess reportbug should still allow
to report a bug against it.

What we can do is to limit to specific modes of reportbugs, like
'advanced' or 'expert' and for the "lower levels" redirect to
debian-users (?) ml.

Regards,
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