Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:34:40 +0100 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2012/5/18 Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net: Hi, Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 mai 12, 14:34:40, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: So I wouldn't blindly close those bug reports, and that's why I'm triaging and handling them in my spare time. Do you know how to retrieve those bugs with querybts(1) other than by individual bug number? Kind regards, Andrei

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The BTS could then not just track the binary/source package of a bug but also the meta-source package. That way when gcc-4.4 is removed from the archive the bugs can still be associated with the gcc-x.y meta package and won't be completly lost.

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/5/19 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com: On Vi, 18 mai 12, 14:34:40, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: So I wouldn't blindly close those bug reports, and that's why I'm triaging and handling them in my spare time. Do you know how to retrieve those bugs with querybts(1) other

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 mai 12, 15:48:46, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: I don't know much about querybts, but you can ask for all [unarchived, I think] bugs in package emacs21, for example: For that you would have to know the package the bug was reported against. Hopefully somebody more

What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few packages. Most of them got removed because newer versions

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Daniel Leidert wrote: Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:50:12 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Daniel Leidert wrote: Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net (18/05/2012): Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net writes: Hi, Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net writes: Hi, Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, 2012/5/18 Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net: Hi, Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:34:40 +0100 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2012/5/18 Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net: Hi, Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/5/18 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: There's a big difference between these bugs and the rest - here there are clear migration paths to later packages which can be used to triage the bug reports in order not to lose reports. A lot of the rest *can* be closed without more triage work

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 18 mai 2012 17:41:55, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo a écrit : 2012/5/18 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: There's a big difference between these bugs and the rest - here there are clear migration paths to later packages which can be used to triage the bug reports in order not

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/5/18 Thomas Preud'homme robo...@celest.fr: According to [1] salome is not part of any debian release now. Did I miss something? IIRW, for package still in stable, if the -done mail contains the right version then the bug will still be visible as long as it affects stable. Oh yes,

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:41:55 +0100 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com wrote: Another question, perhaps unrelated is, what happens with the bugs closed from egroupware or salome (removed from unstable/testing but still present in stable releases) when their users look for

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! On 18.05.2012 10:50, Paul Wise wrote: Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few packages. Most of