Re: Bug in auto-closing of bugs through changelog entries
>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
Matt> In some situations, it would be nice to be able to merge
Matt> reports that belong to different packages. For example,
Matt> when a bug in package libfoo causes a problem with package
Matt> bar (where it is non-obvious that the problem is caused by
Matt> libfoo), a bug could remain open against bar (merged with
Matt> the appropriate report against libfoo) to prevent users from
Matt> filing new bugs against bar and give them a status update on
Matt> when the problem with bar will go away.
Agreed. I often find myself in a similar situation myself.
eg. bug X is reported against my package. However, I can't fix it
until bug Y is fixed in another package (not maintained by me).
So, I could reassign the bug to the other package, but then the
maintainer will close the bug when he/she has finished, instead of
reassigning it bug to me. So I don't get notified that the problem has
been fixed, which means I don't fix the problem in my package.
What I often end up doing is filing a new bug report, and when the bug
ID comes back (if I remember), I will add that to the old bug report.
Matt> True, this would cause a bug to remain open against a
Matt> package that does not contain a bug per se, but if you view
Matt> bugs as "problem reports", this is valid.
It would be good if you could say "bug X depends on bug Y getting
fixed" or even "open a new bug report Y and automatically associate it
with existing bug report X, ie. so bug X depends on bug Y getting
fixed first".
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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