#774500 notify maintainers of affected bugs; possibly require it for orphaned bugs or wnpp bugs

Package:
debbugs
Source:
debbugs
Submitter:
Holger Levsen
Date:
2015-02-22 18:39:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#774500#5
Date:
2015-01-03 14:29:22 UTC
From:
To:
package: bugs.debian.org

Hi,

when someone else orphans a package, the maintainers of that package are not
automatically notified, as the bug is assigned to the wnpp pseudo-package.
Thus maintainers might not learn about this (it's shown in the PTS, so it's
not hidden), but there is no active notification which I consider a bug. (And
not just a wishlist missing feature ;)


cheers,
	Holger
#774500#10
Date:
2015-01-03 20:43:34 UTC
From:
To:
Control: retitle -1 notify maintainers of affected bugs; possibly require it for orphaned bugs or wnpp bugs
Control: severity -1 wishlist

It's a missing feature, because there's no way to automatically notify
someone else who is not the maintainer.

Presumably, the way to do this is to use affects in orphan bugs, and
also have maintainers of affected packages receive messages about bugs
which affect their packages.

But that's an additional set of code which has not been written.