Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, 3 Dec, 2005 at 17:15:58 +, Colin Watson wrote: > yaclc provides this. I also have bug #316385: "[process.in] allow for process.in commands to restrict themselves to a specific package (like service.in)". Presently the BTS doesn't seem to have this functionality, but it would probably n

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 02:10:05AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > The problem here would be that said test requires network connectivity, > while the rest of lintian does not. Indeed. Adding such a test to dput seems to me a better idea. dput already has the need of network connectivity, it can sim

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:01:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > A lintian-like test to see if the listed bugs match the package before > uploading seems more useful to me. It would have prevented this > particular problem. yaclc provides this. -- Colin Watson [

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Joey Hess schrieb: > A lintian-like test to see if the listed bugs match the package before > uploading seems more useful to me. It would have prevented this > particular problem. The problem here would be that said test requires network connectivity, while the rest of lintian does not.

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:22:41PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > >Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl code > >in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add this > >functionality. > > You can use "package foo" as a comm

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Otavio Salvador
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A lintian-like test to see if the listed bugs match the package before > uploading seems more useful to me. It would have prevented this > particular problem. IMHO, is the best and easier alternative. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
A lintian-like test to see if the listed bugs match the package before uploading seems more useful to me. It would have prevented this particular problem. Perhaps I am sloppy, but I often find it useful to close some bug in a changelog that I might not necessary have taken the time or remembered t

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > if sys.stdin.readline()[1:] not in ['y','Y']: For added utility I might want to improve on that. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ 'What'll we drink to?' Nick asked, holding up the glass. 'Let's drink to testing,' Bill said. 'All right,'

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Matt, if that would help, I'd include a (n option that allows to) check via bts2ldap + the attached script into dput. That'd be less intrusive than changing the behaviour of Closes:, for better or worse. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ #!/usr/bin/python import

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Simon Richter wrote: > > >>Matthew Palmer wrote: >> >> >>>Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl >>>code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add >>>this functionality.

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 03:03, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Simon Richter wrote: > > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >> Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl > >> code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add > >> this functionality. > > > > You can use "pack

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Simon Richter wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >> Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl >> code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add >> this functionality. > > You can use "package foo" as a command to control@ to tell it ignore > every

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Matthew Palmer wrote: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add this functionality. You can use "package foo" as a command to control@ to tell it ignore everything that does not affect bugs

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:45:31AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl code > in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add this > functionality. > > - Matt Maybe it is a good thing that I am neither a DD (yet)

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:53:51AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051202 00:33]: > > > This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what > > about closing an ITP?" > > Then why not make a check (source package of bug and changelog are

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051202 00:33]: > This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what > about closing an ITP?" Then why not make a check (source package of bug and changelog are the same) or (bug to be closed is an ITP)? Yours sincerely, Alexander --

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:33:11PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > > bugs assigned to other packages? > > This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what > about closing an ITP?

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:45:53PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I just had a bug that I opened (#339832) closed by a changelog entry in > a new debconf upload. This is apparently a typo, as the changelog entry > claims that the bug it was closing was related to a Swedish translation > update

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto C. Sanchez] > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > bugs assigned to other packages? This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what about closing an ITP?" signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 December 2005 23:45, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > bugs assigned to other packages? This sounds like a usefull restriction. I've seen enough cases where the wrong bug was closed to see the benefit of this. If the

Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I just had a bug that I opened (#339832) closed by a changelog entry in a new debconf upload. This is apparently a typo, as the changelog entry claims that the bug it was closing was related to a Swedish translation update. My bug was a wishlist bug against gmessage asking for it to become an alt