Re: source vs binary packages in the BTS
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:03:48PM -0500, pryzbyj wrote:
> It seems that I need some clarification regarding source package bug
> pages.
>
> linux-2.6 is a source package producing many binary packages;
> linux-image, linux-headers, linux-doc, linux-manual, etc:
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/linux-2.6
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.html
>
> The package page for a 'linux-2.6' binary package doesn't exist:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/linux-2.6
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=0&exact=1&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=linux-2.6&searchon=names
>
> But a package page for the 'linux-2.6' source package does exist:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/src:linux-2.6
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=sourcenames&version=all&exact=1&keywords=linux-2.6
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=0&exact=1&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=linux-2.6&searchon=sourcenames
>
> The bug page for this source package is:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/src:linux-2.6
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux-2.6
>
> and lists my recently-closed bug #102724.
>
> Then what, I wonder, is this page?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/linux-2.6
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=linux-2.6
>
> Perhaps it is the source package page, but before the BTS gets updated
> with a recent list of binary packages it produces? That is my best
> guess so far.
>
> By the way, is it valid to file a bug on a source package, if no
> binary package exists by the same name? (For example, Package:
> linux-2.6).
>
> Is there a way of filing a bug against the source package
> specifically, if a binary package name is the same? (As it is for
> many packages, especially 'single-binary' ones, for example my
> packages saods9 and sextractor). This would be useful to me as a way
> of marking a bug as "Debian-specific", and, I'm just extra curious
> today.
Alternately, is the definition of a source package's bugs just the
bugs filed against binary packages produced by that source package?
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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