Hello Glen, all, and sorry for the long delay, * Glenn Morris wrote on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:54:45AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote (on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 at 22:46 +0200): > > > There is one question I haven't seen addressed yet, that I think should > > be documented: is it possible to easily export the bug database to some > > other format? Are there maybe any converters that do this already? > > (I'm thinking that it should be possible, but if one has to completely > > invent it anew, that would at least be some work.) > > Hmm. I don't know - there might be some Debian tools to do that? > > The bugs can be retrieved as mbox folders via the web-interface, eg: > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?mboxmaint=yes;mbox=yes;bug=7209 > > Internally, they are all stored as basically mbox mail folders with > some extra sections inbetween the messages. There are two extra files > that summarize the status. Everything is plain text.
Let's ignore all of this, I don't think it warrants delaying the switch. > > I think we want this. Does bug-coreutils operate in Exclusive mode? > > Yes, it does. By the way, that is just a term I made up. :) Fine with me. > > I think that is what would be easiest for bug-automake as well. > > I agree. OK then. > > You can use my email address as maintainer and debbugs-submit moderator > > for now. > > Done. "automake" exists as a package now, and I filed a test bug: > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7209 > > You should get a mail about it. You can play around with replying, > setting severity, closing, etc. That's all good. Thanks. > When you are ready to go ahead, the final steps would be to: > > 1) Change the automake maintainer to bug-automake > > 2) Activate a router rule for bug-automake, that would redirect > messages to debbugs.gnu.org. This should happen automatically once I > add an entry to the appropriate config file on debbugs.gnu.org (has not > been tested yet, but should work). Please do that. Thanks! > > My current plan is to apply the patch below to the tree, create the HTML > > page from it and upload it to > > <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Reporting-Bugs.html> > > (where it will appear for the next release anyway), so you could use > > that as "Specific help" link on <http://debbugs.gnu.org/>. > > > +...@uref{http://debbugs.gnu.org/@/cgi/@/pkgreport.cgi?package=automake;max-bugs=100;base-order=1;bug-rev=1, > > +bug tracker}. > > May be better to simply use http://debbugs.gnu.org/automake there. Good idea. I've uploaded the fixed text to above URL now, will push the commit soon. Thanks, Ralf