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Re: DPLs : what do you think about ...



Previously Joseph Carter wrote:
> Wichert:  I know you have automated this, is it possible for you to have
> things track bugs in both frozen and unstable or would this require
> extensive modification of the BTS to accomidate you?

No, the BTS does not support this. To be able to really track bugs 
you have to know more about it:
 - for which architectures the bug shows itself (most bugs will be for
   all architectures). We could probably also use a source-architecture
   to indicate a problem in the source (like not removing debian/files).
 - which versions of the package have the bug (versionranges such as
   dpkg uses might be appropriate).

I already check if the package is in the frozen distribution for one of
the architectures being released. For the interested, the code to scan
the BTS spool is available in ~wakkerma/bugscan-4 on master.

I think it is quite easy to add pseudoheaders to the BTS. We would
also need to extend the version pseudoheader and add a command to
change it later. 

Also we will have to make sure that people actually supply this information,
and we will probably need a group of people to check this.

> This may or may not be possible to track bugs in unstable AND bugs in
> frozen anytime soon.  If it can be done, I think it'd be a good thing. 
> It's kinda up to Wichert though.

It's not up to me, it's up to people implementing this for the BTS. Once
that is done it will probably be almost trivial to add it to my bugscan
scripts.

> Monitoring the critical bugs throughout the development cycle

Starting with slink I have fully automated the scripts that scan the BTS
data, so it is very easy to do this now (to the limited extend that
a release-critical bugreport helps). And as a bonus you get a nice graph
that shows how we are doing :)

Wichert.

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