Then close some bugs :) No, seriously, that's how it's created but as long as we don't start ignoring bugs, we'll never see 9999 or 99999 bugs in a single directory. On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:46:07PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > > I'm currently working on a tool that automatically fetches all bug reports > belonging to one package. > > The base url is http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ and I always thought that the > subdirectories were designed so that only up to 999 files go into a single > directory. > > But today, I noticed that this assumption seems to be wrong when trying to > download the page for e.g. Bug#8429. It's not in /8/ but /84/. > > So, the directory is only determined by the leading 2 digits? > If so, what will happen when our bugs reach 6 digit numbers (Currently, the > number of bug reports seems to grow exponentially...). Putting 10000-1 > files into a single directory doesn't sound very wise to me... > > > Thomas > -- > GnuPG: ID=B0FA4F49, http://www.in.tum.de/~schoepf/gpgkey.txt > Fingerprint: FA38 2D7E 408F 61E4 BF49 B48F 04BD F5BE B0FA 4F49 > PGP 2: ID=2EA7BBBD, http://www.in.tum.de/~schoepf/pgpkey.txt > Fingerprint: 08 96 1F CD AD 55 03 0F 95 92 B0 F2 04 32 4B 52
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