Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal Hi there!
Yesterday I tried for the first time the 'usertags' option [1], as you can read from my post in the pkg-fso mailing list [2]. The main fact, here, is that the pkg-fso group is working on packages which cannot be uploaded yet to Debian [3]. Thus, we decided to use usertags to have a complete view of bugs in all the packages we maintain or in packages necessary for the Openmoko FreeRunner. First problem: since I erroneously thought that usertags are a completely different beast WRT tags, I set some 'upstream' usertags as well. This resulted in a strange view of [4]: it also included bugs tagged 'upstream' but which have nothing to do with the 'users'. It can be reproduced adding the 'upstream' tag at the end of the BTS page. This was something Don called an "interesting" result ;-) From the discussion I had with Don on IRC, I (again probably miss-) understood that the 'upstream' tag would have been included when I look for usertags. Thus, I removed all the 'upstream' usertags and while I haven't the "interesting" result anymore, bugs with tag 'upstream' are not included in [3]. This is something expected, because I don't see how debbugs can automatically distinguish between all the 'upstream'-tagged bugs and the one 'users' want. I don't know which is the best solution here and moreover I'm not an expert on usertags, but I came up with two of them: 1) using a modified 'upstream-$WHATEVER' usertag This solve the situation forever, but at the same time adds more usertags, let's say pkg-foo wants the same with 'upstream-foo'... FWIW, I'm going to use this solution until this bug will be closed. 2) defining a particular case for the 'upstream' usertag, which actually acts as a normal tag Every time the 'upstream' usertag is set, this is treated as a normal 'upstream' tag with the exception that it's registered as an usertag for the user Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://wiki.debian.org/bugs.debian.org/usertags [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2008-August/000037.html [3] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tags=upstream -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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