2012/4/3 Gergely Nagy :
>> Why do these bugs loose that link to their source package? Have they
>> been gone so long the package isn't even in old-stable anymore and the
>> BTS doesn't record the source package anywhere?
>
> Pretty much, yes.
Also happens that the source package generates several
* Gergely Nagy , 2012-04-01, 13:02:
1) In general, what should the maintainers do to prevent such cases? I
guess that one could reassign the bugs from the old package to the new
one, but it seems obvious that this can be oversought easily,
especially for libpackages where SOVERSION changes ofte
Goswin von Brederlow writes:
> Gergely Nagy writes:
>
>> "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" writes:
>>
>>> So I have several related questions:
>>>
>>> 1) In general, what should the maintainers do to prevent such cases?
>>> I guess that one could reassign the bugs from the old package to the
>>>
Gergely Nagy writes:
> "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" writes:
>
>> So I have several related questions:
>>
>> 1) In general, what should the maintainers do to prevent such cases?
>> I guess that one could reassign the bugs from the old package to the
>> new one, but it seems obvious that this c
2012/4/1 Gergely Nagy :
>> 2) What to do now with all of these bug reports? Reassign them to the
>> related source package in unstable? Contact QA? Nothing at all?
>
> The best course of action would be to check whether the reported issue
> is still valid, and reassign to the appropriate (source)
"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" writes:
> So I have several related questions:
>
> 1) In general, what should the maintainers do to prevent such cases?
> I guess that one could reassign the bugs from the old package to the
> new one, but it seems obvious that this can be oversought easily,
> espe
Ideally the BTS would have a better way (probably involving the
version trees) to associate these bugs with source and or binary
packages still in the archive. Where it couldn't do that the usual
auto-archiving (but not closing since the package could be
reintroduced) would be appropriate. This wou
Hello,
I don't know if there's a more appropriate place to ask for this, if
so please tell me.
While looking for a bug report that I knew that existed but that I
couln't find, I noticed that the bug was assigned to
libwhatever-SOVERSION_OLD, and that the current package in the archive
contains li
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