As seen in: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2013- April/002470.html
I just enjoyed a similar experience with tagpending and the limit command. -------- 8< -------- > #translate-toolkit (1.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low > # > # * New upstream version (Closes: #585834, #703170). > # * Depend on libexttextcat-data to obtain the langmodels > # (Closes: #703942, #703943). > # * Fix encoding of filenames in zipfiles (Closes: #643008). > # > limit source translate-toolkit Limiting to bugs with field 'source' containing at least one of 'translate- toolkit' Limit currently set to 'source':'translate-toolkit' > tags 703942 + pending source: "pootle, translate-toolkit"' does not match at least one of "translate-toolkit" Failed to alter tags of Bug 703942: limit failed for bugs: 703942. > tags 643008 + pending source: "pootle, translate-toolkit"' does not match at least one of "translate-toolkit" Failed to alter tags of Bug 643008: limit failed for bugs: 643008. > tags 703170 + pending Bug #703170 [src:translate-toolkit] new version 1.10.0 available, needed for Pootle 2.5.0 Added tag(s) pending. > tags 585834 + pending source: "pootle, translate-toolkit"' does not match at least one of "translate-toolkit" Failed to alter tags of Bug 585834: limit failed for bugs: 585834. > tags 703943 + pending source: "pootle, translate-toolkit"' does not match at least one of "translate-toolkit" Failed to alter tags of Bug 703943: limit failed for bugs: 703943. > thanks Stopping processing here. -------- 8< -------- The odd thing in this is that none of these bugs are actually marked as being in the (now removed) pootle package anyway, only 602386 is marked as "affects pootle" and it wasn't in the set being operated on in any case. from UDD, which I know doesn't necessarily encompass the bts db that well => select id,package,affected_packages from bugs where package like '%translate-toolkit%'; id | package | affected_packages --------+-----------------------+------------------- 703943 | translate-toolkit | 644256 | translate-toolkit | 555422 | translate-toolkit | 585834 | translate-toolkit | 705040 | translate-toolkit | virtaal 703170 | src:translate-toolkit | 602386 | translate-toolkit | pootle 643008 | translate-toolkit | 703942 | translate-toolkit | 666413 | translate-toolkit | (10 rows) -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org