Re: Thoughts about bts reassign

2007-08-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Vincent Fourmond [Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:34:31 +0200]: > one should first clone it, then reassign, This is sometimes done, but at maintainer's discretion only. Most likely if it's a many-times reported bug. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debi

Re: Thoughts about bts reassign

2007-08-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > When a bug filed against a package turns out to be a bug in one of the > dependencies (including implicit ones, such as the kernel and so on...), > instead of simply reassigning the bug to the faulty package It's not always a good idea to do as yo

Thoughts about bts reassign

2007-08-04 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello all, I've recently came up with some problems with the way reassign is currently used: I filed a bug against Qt4 that had (serious) problems on HPPA, making several packages FTBS (#435832). It turned out, as I should have guessed, that this problems had already been reported in bug #433