On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create architecture > > tags in the BTS. I've always felt that such a thing would be useful, > > because often porters are unaware of architecture-specific bugs, simply > > because there's no way in the BTS to actually search for them. Having > > such an ability could make porters of a particular architecture aware of > > the issues that affect their architecture, and (where necessary) able to > > help out. > > Note that porters can find many issues just by looking at the buildd.d.o > [0] pages even for issues not (yet) known in the BTS for which they > could file bugs. I'm aware of that. But there's a major difference between FTBFS bugs and architecture-specific bugs. "emacs segfaults on m68k when the user hits control-alt-meta-shift-a" is an example of an architecture-specific bug that is unlikely to be found by an autobuilder, and is the kind of bugs this type of usertags is primarily useful for. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22
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