Am I supposed… ?

… to be aware of the bugs reported on Ubuntu’s launchpad against the packages I (co-)maintain for Debian?

Especially for the packages in the “universe” component?

For those who wonder:

The universe component is a snapshot of the free, open source, and Linux world. In universe you can find almost every piece of open source software, and software available under a variety of less open licences, all built automatically from a variety of public sources.

Source: http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/components

Of course, Debian repositories are included in these public sources. This means that, without you are aware of it, you can maintain packages for Ubuntu.

This is my case for at least the nautilus-open-terminal package: a bug was reported on Sunday on the BTS, and I have found that this bug was already reported in launchpad since February!

And as the packages in universe are not officially supported by Ubuntu, nobody will fix the bug. And as I wasn’t aware of this, I couldn’t do anything on my side.

Now, the upstream’s mailbox is over quota and I am not able to fix this bug myself.

Am I supposed to look on launchpad for bugs reported against my packages?
Maybe one could work on a system that would show these bugs on the PTS, as it is already the case for patches. I will try and make this propsal to Raphaël after Alioth’s servers have been migrated.