Hi Francesco, On 2012-11-15 18:39:38 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:06:53 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Bugs with severity serious > > 1) #687906 [powerpc] coreutils: fails to build from source > > (test-futimens > > Bug #687906 is assigned to the coreutils *source* package and > apt-listbugs currently ignores those bugs (see #257873).
My bug report was more about the second one, but thanks for the information. Actually even if #257873 is fixed, I think that FTBFS bugs should be filtered out by apt-listbugs; I've added a comment about that in bug #257873. > > 2) #693211 coreutils: file conflict with realpath > > Bug #693211 should have been taken into account, but it has not! > > As far as I can tell, the problem is caused by the fact that the serious > bug #693211 is (correctly) assigned to both package realpath and > package coreutils. > And it is marked as found in versions realpath/1.17, coreutils/8.20-1. > > Since apt-listbugs is not yet able to figure out which source package > name corresponds to a given binary package name, when it reads that > bug #693211 is found in realpath/1.17, it just drops the "realpath/" > string (as it *could* be the source package name, even though it's not, > in the present case!) and understands that the bug is found in > versions 1.17 and 8.20-1. If the real issue (get info on the source package) is difficult to fix (so that it could take again some years), wouldn't testing both version numbers be an acceptable workaround? I think that it is better to get false positives (the user can easily check, and apt-listbugs can even warn about possible false positives) than missing false negatives. > As a consequence, when evaluating the coreutils 8.13-3.3 -> 8.20-1 > upgrade, apt-listbugs incorrectly assumes that bug #693211 is already > present in your system (the currently installed version 8.13-3.3 is > later than version 1.17 !) and therefore incorrectly thinks that > stopping the upgrade is pointless. > > In case you are interested to verify this, please try > > $ apt-listbugs list coreutils/8.13-3.3 --debug I confirm that I get the bug with this command. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
