Hi Moritz On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 19:42, Moritz Muehlenhoff<j...@inutil.org> wrote: > Hi, > >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 17:45, Moritz Muehlenhoff<j...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Package: reportbug >> > Version: 4.5 >> > Severity: wishlist >> > >> > The linux-2.6 source package is a bit special in comparison to other >> > packages >> > because the names of the binary packages change frequently (every 2-3 >> > months with >> > the release of a new kernel version). Currently, most bugs are reassigned >> > manually to the linux-2.6 source package. It would be nice if all bugs >> > filed >> > against the kernel in reportbug were always directed towards the linux-2.6 >> > source package. >> >> Of course we'd be more than happy to help you with this, but I got >> some thoughts: >> >> - wouldn't you lost the information about what kernel the bug is >> about? It's true that in the Sys info below we got: >> >> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) >> >> but that's the running kernel. What if a user want to report a bug >> against another version of the kernel (for example that can't boot) >> than the one running? How do you manage this? > > That's usually mentioned in the bug report itself. It's quite a > cornercase and I think we can ignore it.
ok then >> - would you please be so kind to provide us the stricter regular >> expression to match a binary kernel package? :) this way we can match >> the current bin package name against the regex and do the voodoo magic >> to force the report against linux-2.6 (yeah, this also means that if >> you change the binary name structure, you should communicate us back >> the new regexp). I could write myself, but I think that you would end >> up with a much better one ;) > > The following matches should be safe: > > linux-doc-2.6* > linux-headers-2.6* > linux-image-2.6* > linux-libc-dev > linux-manual-2.6* > linux-patch-debian-2.6* > linux-source-2.6* > linux-support-2.6* > linux-tree-2.6* Oh, only now I think of it: does all those bin packages come from linux-2.6 source package? if so, I think we can check if the source package is 'linux-2.6' and force to assign all bugs for its bin pkgs to it. What do you think? > The kernel developers have mentioned that they don't intend to change > the kernel versioning scheme in the foreseeable future and by current > development speed it'll take 17 years until 2.6.100 is released :-) eheh :) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org