Re: Bug#40115: reportbug: needs to display open bug reports
On Jun 24, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> (This is at least 40% a debbugs issue; I don't mind adding support for
> checking the bugs page - perhaps by spawning a web browser - but I
> suspect none of those duplicate bug reports could have been prevented
> in the absence of timely BTS updates.)
>
> Accordingly, I suggest filing a separate report against debbugs
> addressing the timeliness concerns.
To follow up on my post:
At least some of the problem is mirror latency; the U.S. site (which
is where the bugs.debian.org URL resolves) is (now) 7 hours behind
chiark, which is where this stuff actually runs. chiark's timestamp
page is 6 hours ago. That means bugs.debian.org is 13 hours
out-of-date. I suspect the problem gets worse later in the day.
(www.nl.debian.org is over 24 hours off!)
The six hour latency at chiark is bad enough; the mirroring
performance, in these days of rsync, is abysmal. We need to do
better, or at least point bugs.debian.org at chiark...
Chris
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