Package: devscripts
Version: 2.9.25
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/tagpending

        Hi,

 tagpending is handy, but it can't cope with wnpp bugs:
> # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.24
> package sparse
Ignoring bugs not assigned to: sparse

> tags 397780 + pending
Bug number 397780 belongs to package wnpp, skipping.

 This looks like a hard nut to crack as tagpending does not have BTS
 lookup capabilities.  Here are some kludgy ways of dealing with this:
 - check for a versin of the package available via APT with a *.debian.*
   domain, if there's none, it's a NEW source package and the package
   should be set to wnpp
 - or check for the changelog message, if it's something like "initial
   upload" or "first upload" or "close ITP", set package to wnpp

 I'm not sure you really want to implement something that kludgy, the
 correct way would be to query the BTS and check for the bug title +
 package.  Since tagpending is a shell script, I suspect this is not
 easy.  :-/

 Perhaps failing in the above cases is enough, "E: no support for
 closing wnpp bugs yet"?

 I file this as minor because one gets the control transcript anyway.

   Bye,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.17.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.13.24     package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                         5.8.8-6.1   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                          4.1.5-1     The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.10     Gives a fake root environment

-- no debconf information

-- 
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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