Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 mai 12, 15:48:46, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > I don't know much about querybts, but you can ask for all [unarchived, > I think] bugs in package emacs21, for example: For that you would have to know the "package" the bug was reported against. > Hopefully somebody more kno

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/5/19 Andrei POPESCU : > On Vi, 18 mai 12, 14:34:40, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> >> So I wouldn't blindly close those bug reports, and that's why I'm >> triaging and handling them in my spare time. > > Do you know how to retrieve those bugs with querybts(1) other than by > individua

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The BTS could then not just track the binary/source package of a bug > but also the meta-source package. That way when gcc-4.4 is removed > from the archive the bugs can still be associated with the gcc-x.y > meta package and won't be completly los

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 mai 12, 14:34:40, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > So I wouldn't blindly close those bug reports, and that's why I'm > triaging and handling them in my spare time. Do you know how to retrieve those bugs with querybts(1) other than by individual bug number? Kind regards, Andrei

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams writes: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:34:40 +0100 > "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 2012/5/18 Daniel Leidert : >> > Hi, >> > >> > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. >> > What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! On 18.05.2012 10:50, Paul Wise wrote: Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few packages. Most of th

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:41:55 +0100 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" wrote: > Another question, perhaps unrelated is, what happens with the bugs > closed from egroupware or salome (removed from unstable/testing but > still present in stable releases) when their users look for them in > the BTS? Th

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/5/18 Thomas Preud'homme : > According to [1] salome is not part of any debian release now. Did I miss > something? IIRW, for package still in stable, if the -done mail contains the > right version then the bug will still be visible as long as it affects stable. Oh yes, egroupware only in olds

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 18 mai 2012 17:41:55, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo a écrit : > 2012/5/18 Neil Williams : > > There's a big difference between these bugs and the rest - here there > > are clear migration paths to later packages which can be used to triage > > the bug reports in order not to lose report

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/5/18 Neil Williams : > There's a big difference between these bugs and the rest - here there > are clear migration paths to later packages which can be used to triage > the bug reports in order not to lose reports. A lot of the rest *can* > be closed without more triage work because the packag

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:34:40 +0100 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/5/18 Daniel Leidert : > > Hi, > > > > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. > > What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep > > them for the

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, 2012/5/18 Daniel Leidert : > Hi, > > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. > What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them > for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a > few packages. Most of

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Daniel Leidert" writes: > Hi, > > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. > What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them > for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a > few packages. Most of them

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
"Daniel Leidert" writes: > Hi, > > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) > exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea > to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might > happen only for a few packages. Most of them got

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Leidert (18/05/2012): > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) > exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea > to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might > happen only for a few packages. Most of them got remo

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:50:12 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. > > What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep > > them for the case, a pack

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. > What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them > for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a > few pa