Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:55:19 +0200, Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am Wed, 18 Jun 2003 02:40:05 +0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: >> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: >>> as you both suggested. But I wonder if the BTS could have an "invalid" >>> tag for such cases?!? >>

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:55:19 +0200, Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am Wed, 18 Jun 2003 02:40:05 +0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: >> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: >>> as you both suggested. But I wonder if the BTS could have an "invalid" >>> tag for such cases?!? >>

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-18 Thread Johannes Rohr
Am Wed, 18 Jun 2003 02:40:05 +0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: >> as you both suggested. But I wonder if the BTS could have an "invalid" >> tag for such cases?!? > > Why clog it up with invalid reports? They stay around as closed for a small >

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-17 Thread Johannes Rohr
Am Wed, 18 Jun 2003 02:40:05 +0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: >> as you both suggested. But I wonder if the BTS could have an "invalid" >> tag for such cases?!? > > Why clog it up with invalid reports? They stay around as closed for a small >

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: > as you both suggested. But I wonder if the BTS could have an "invalid" > tag for such cases?!? Why clog it up with invalid reports? They stay around as closed for a small while, then get archived... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find th

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: > as you both suggested. But I wonder if the BTS could have an "invalid" > tag for such cases?!? Why clog it up with invalid reports? They stay around as closed for a small while, then get archived... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find th

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-17 Thread Johannes Rohr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small) writes: [...] >> What is the generally accepted way within the "Debian culture" to deal >> with such reports? Do I close the bug right away? Do I downgrade it? >> Do I reassign it (in this case to gstreamer)? > I'd close it. At the very worse tag it wontfix and

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-17 Thread Johannes Rohr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small) writes: [...] >> What is the generally accepted way within the "Debian culture" to deal >> with such reports? Do I close the bug right away? Do I downgrade it? >> Do I reassign it (in this case to gstreamer)? > I'd close it. At the very worse tag it wontfix and

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: > What is the generally accepted way within the "Debian culture" to deal > with such reports? Do I close the bug right away? Do I downgrade it? > Do I reassign it (in this case to gstreamer)? You can reassign it with the priority and bug title changed to w

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-16 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:43:25PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: > some days ago someone filed an obviously bogus bug against a package > I'm co-maintaining (nautilus-media, bug #197352), i.e. he complained > about being unable to install the gnome-core metapackage on hppa > because nautilus-media on

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Johannes Rohr wrote: > What is the generally accepted way within the "Debian culture" to deal > with such reports? Do I close the bug right away? Do I downgrade it? > Do I reassign it (in this case to gstreamer)? You can reassign it with the priority and bug title changed to w

How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-16 Thread Johannes Rohr
Dear all, some days ago someone filed an obviously bogus bug against a package I'm co-maintaining (nautilus-media, bug #197352), i.e. he complained about being unable to install the gnome-core metapackage on hppa because nautilus-media on which gnome-core depends is unavailable on that arch. The

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-16 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:43:25PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: > some days ago someone filed an obviously bogus bug against a package > I'm co-maintaining (nautilus-media, bug #197352), i.e. he complained > about being unable to install the gnome-core metapackage on hppa > because nautilus-media on

How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

2003-06-16 Thread Johannes Rohr
Dear all, some days ago someone filed an obviously bogus bug against a package I'm co-maintaining (nautilus-media, bug #197352), i.e. he complained about being unable to install the gnome-core metapackage on hppa because nautilus-media on which gnome-core depends is unavailable on that arch. The