hi don, On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:07:12PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > pending <bug> [dist] > > Pending is a tag, so this won't work. [It'd basically require breaking > everything that uses tag pending, and requiring everyone to learn an > entirely new syntax.]
i'd see it more as an orthogonal from an implementation standpoint (i.e.
there's a pending tag that has nothing to do with this new bit of status,
of course some hack could be added to "tag nnn pending" to add the status
for unstable to keep things internally coherent)
> What it sounds like you're basically asking for is pending-testing,
> pending-stable and pending-unstable.
yeah. or actually pending-<codename>, since a big might be tagged
pending-testing and then testing rolls over to stable.
> However, the cases where the latter to are even remotely useful are
> fairly small, and probably only apply to bugs being prepared for
> security updates, etc. In such a case, I'd suggest using usertags for
> a debian-secur...@ldo user (or something else) to track uploads which
> are pending.
this fairly small usecase is sadly a large part of my typical debian
work :(. i imagine anyone who works on a large (esp multi-versioned)
package would find this helpful, i.e. iceweasel, kernel, etc. also, in some
cases they might not be security bugs, but other RC bugfixes sent through
s-p-u/t-p-u.
i'm a bit hesitant towards the idea of usertags, but i'd be willing to
give it a shot... is there a way to query for bugs that don't have a
certain usertag?
sean
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