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



On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:50:12 +0800
Paul Wise <pabs@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 case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few packages. Most of them got removed because newer versions were released. What about closing those reports, if an RM-request is filed?
> 
> ftpmaster already close bugs automatically when processing RM requests.

... although there are bugs in that process, especially if the request
is to remove more than one package in a single bug report or if the
package in question has had a change of source package name.

> 
> My thoughts are the same as last time this question got asked:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00004.html

As is that of the QA team in general:

http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/unknown-package/TODO

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