Re: Bug Reporting system
joost witteveen wrote:
>
> > Have the architecture as default and if it is a general bug the
> > maintainer can forward it to all other or to a main bug list.
>
> Please, take a look at debian-bug.
>
> I see quite a number of bugs every day, but I really cannot
> remember the last time I saw an architecture-dependant bug.
> Yes, you managed to come up with 2 (if I reacall correctly), but
> really, the fackt is that 99.5% or more of all bugs are as architetecture
> independant as is possible.
>
> Bugs like:
> - anything missing/wrong in ./debian/* is bound to be architecture
> independant. Yes, also any missing "$(ARCH)" stuff is architectue
> independant once it is noticed on some architecture, as it just
> requires a change to the archtecture indepentant source.
> - missing files, incorrect file modes, (not)gzipping of files,
> whatever
> - incorrect configuration files.
Have you seen bugs for xpaste, for all the games suporting x, the
kernel, the bootdisk, the X itself the mktime and many more. They all
weren't filled in as bugreports, cause with the setup we have now it's
just not possible.
>
> > May the source be with you.
>
> All bugs in the source are bugs to be fixed by the maintainer
> of the debian source package.
The maintainer would still recieve the bugreport.
>
> Soon, I'm sure, we _will_ have the auto-compiled stuff working.
> Then there will only be source package maintainers
> (maintainers upload their source/diffs only, and they get automatically
> compiled), and no architecture maintainer will exist for each given
> package.
I hope we do have soon.
>
> Or do you want the owner of the x86 machine that does the
> auto-compling of the i386, to recieve (almost) _all_ bugs filed
> against every debian package, just in case the bug is only
> in the i386 version. Then that owner reads all of those bugs,
> and forwards all (rather, 99.95%) of them to the source package
> maintainer?
As before, the maintainer would get the bugreport and also the
debian-arch list.
> --
> joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
May the source be with you.
Mrvn
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