On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:29:49 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] > On 2012-11-15 18:39:38 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Since apt-listbugs is not yet able to figure out which source package > > name corresponds to a given binary package name, when it reads that > > bug #693211 is found in realpath/1.17, it just drops the "realpath/" > > string (as it *could* be the source package name, even though it's not, > > in the present case!) and understands that the bug is found in > > versions 1.17 and 8.20-1. > > If the real issue (get info on the source package) is difficult to > fix (so that it could take again some years), wouldn't testing both > version numbers be an acceptable workaround? [...]
The problem is exactly that apt-listbugs currently takes both "found"
versions into account (1.17 and 8.20-1), as if they were two versions
of the same package, while they instead refer to two distinct packages!
Anyway, I suppose you are no longer experiencing the problem with
bug #693211, since its version tracking info has changed in the
meanwhile...
But the issue you reported is still present in apt-listbugs and may
bite in some other cases where bugs are assigned to two (or more)
packages.
I've worked on this issue during the week-end.
I tried to implement a way to check version tracking info ("found" and
"fixed" version provided by the BTS) against source package names and
source versions, instead of binary package names and binary versions, as
explained in http://bugs.debian.org/257873#24
It (almost) works, but it's way too slow, especially when the number of
packages to be checked is large, since it has to perform one or more
SOAP communications for each package to be checked! :-(
I really need to figure out a different approach...
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