Re: mess in BTS
On Sunday 20 March 2005 05:42 am, Andrea Mennucc wrote:
> hi
>
> I have noticed a messy situation in BTS,
> regarding my source package libppd (*)
>
> my source package has this web page in BTS
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libppd
> where you see there are 4 bugs listed (resolved)
The source package bug pages list all bugs reported against any binary
packages the build from that source.
> but then there is this web page
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libppd
>
> this page is meaningless : it presents itself as
> the BTS page for the binary package 'libppd'
> but there is no such binary package
No, but people reported bugs against that binary package.
> indeed I see errors in this latter webpage:
> -) it lists 3 bugs and not 4
It lists all the bugs reported against "Package: libppd".
> -) where it says ``refer to the libppd package page''
> there is an useless link http://packages.debian.org/libppd
>
> what is the meaning of this latter web page?
>
> how come some bugs (such as the FTBFS bug)
> are appended to this page?
> and some other bugs are not?
The bug that is not on the pkg=libppd page is the one reported against
libppd0. The other three are all reported against libppd.
I think the problem here is that as far as I know there is no way to report
a bug solely against a source package. Usually this isn't an issue, as
source packages often build a binary package by the same name, I guess.
Josh
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