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finding out which version of a package a bug affects



hi folks,

i am trying to write something similar to bts.turmzimmer.net, and
somewhere in these i need to find out which versions of a package a
given bug affects. i have read the information on the wiki, and had a
quick chat with sesse, but there are still some things i do not quite
understand:

- how can i get the version graph as used by debbugs? is there a way on
  the soap to query it? will there be one in the future? is that what
  getversions() is for? i have of course found the raw data on merkel,
  but is that accessible without a login to merkel (http or so)? and how
  do i parse it? 

- i don't quite understand what the "source/version" format in found and
  fixed is good for. under which circumstances can this be different
  from the source package the bug is against?

- if a bug gets reassigned, what happens to the found/fixed information?

- is it correct that if i have only a "found" and the bug is not "done",
  all versions in the tree after the "found" are affected.

- in a similar manner, if i have only the "fixed" information, all
  versions before that have to be considered affected?

- if the version tree is only one long chain (for the sake of argument),
  will there be only one affected interval, or can there be multiple
  (e.g. found: 1;4 fixed 2;6)? can they be redundant (e.g. found: 1; 2 
  fixed: 4; 5)

thanks  robert

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Robert Lemmen                               http://www.semistable.com 

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