Tracking bugs by revision number works very well for upstream, and if that interferes with Debian packaging then they would see that as Debian's problem. In any case, I was given commit access to the Debian repository recently, and made the fix in such a way that the revision will be set automatically each time new upstream code gets imported via uscan, so there is no chance of somebody forgetting to do it.
Unfortunately I haven't been given access to the Debian archive so I can't upload the package into Debian, but hopefully the actual maintainer will get around to doing it soon.
Thanks,
Actually, I fixed it ;)
Tracking bugs by revision number works very well for upstream, and if that interferes with Debian packaging then they would see that as Debian's problem. In any case, I was given commit access to the Debian repository recently, and made the fix in such a way that the revision will be set automatically each time new upstream code gets imported via uscan, so there is no chance of somebody forgetting to do it.
Unfortunately I haven't been given access to the Debian archive so I can't upload the package into Debian, but hopefully the actual maintainer will get around to doing it soon.
Peter