[Reportbug-maint] Bug#878088: Bug#878088: Bug#878088: reportbug: please inform security and lts teams about security update regressions

Sandro Tosi morph at debian.org
Tue Jan 23 04:19:03 UTC 2018


> What can we do to get this feature into reportbug?

* did you update the patch to include the new contact field in
distribution.json and not hardcode the email address?
* did you test what happen in offline mode and fix the eventual regression?

i did a quick check on the number of bugs reported in a week, and over
the 600+ bugs filed, less than 30 where for a stable release (either
stretch or previous ones); i think you may also clarify that prompt,
as i suspect users will get rather confused "how am i supposed to know
if this is a security update? i just apt-get upgrade the system and
now this package doesnt work" kind of scenario.

Regards,

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