Re: BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-10-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 07:36:28PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Consider if we have bugs 0->199 and you take the first digit. You end up > with 10 bugs in each bucket except bucket '1' which has 110. Put that on a > broader scale and account for expired bugs and you see the trouble. Why not bas

Re: BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-10-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > I don't understand how this should reduce/limit the number of files in a > single directory. Well, it's an application of probability theory.. The last couple digits are more evenly distributed over the range of active (and inactive) bugs so you get a

Re: BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-10-01 Thread Thomas Schoepf
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:07:18AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > I want to change the structure to save based > on the last two digits of the bug number, not the first... I don't understand how this should reduce/limit the number of files in a single directory. Why not determine the directory by

Re: BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-10-01 Thread Thomas Schoepf
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:03:58PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > Then close some bugs :) Ok. But what happens to those closed bugs as the new debbugs package no longer cleans them out? > No, seriously, that's how it's created but as long as we don't start ignoring > bugs, we'll never see or

Re: BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-10-01 Thread Darren Benham
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:19:56PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > > > No, seriously, that's how it's created but as long as we don't start > > ignoring > > bugs, we'll never see or 9 bugs in a single directory. > > Yeah, but the entire rea

Re: BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-10-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > No, seriously, that's how it's created but as long as we don't start ignoring > bugs, we'll never see or 9 bugs in a single directory. Yeah, but the entire reason behind splitting things up like that was to reduce the number of files per-direc

Re: BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-10-01 Thread Darren Benham
Then close some bugs :) No, seriously, that's how it's created but as long as we don't start ignoring bugs, we'll never see or 9 bugs in a single directory. On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:46:07PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > > I'm currently working on a tool that automatically fetches all

BTS: How are the bug reports organized?

1999-09-30 Thread Thomas Schoepf
I'm currently working on a tool that automatically fetches all bug reports belonging to one package. The base url is http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ and I always thought that the subdirectories were designed so that only up to 999 files go into a single directory. But today, I noticed that this a