Author: Adam D. Barratt Date: To: exim-dev Subject: Re: [Exim-dev] Code quality measurements and automated checks
On Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:06 PM, Andreas Metzler
<eximusers@???> wrote:
> On 2004-06-23 "Adam D. Barratt" <exim-dev@???> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:59 AM, Nigel Metheringham
>> <Nigel.Metheringham@???> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Additionally it would be good if we had a good way of hooking the
>>> distribution bug repositories in some way - picking up reported
>>> bugs.
>
>> That's trivial to do for Debian - simply subscribe exim-dev to the
>> PTS (Package Tracking System) for the exim{,4} source packages.
> [...]
>
> I would not suggest it, though. About 92% of the bugs reported
> against the Debian exim package are Debian-specific, i.e. depend on
> the packaging and are not related to exim's sourcecode.
Fair point. (And the "I don't understand how things work", "I filed an
identical copy of this yesterday", etc., etc. bugs).
