Re: mess in BTS
Hi Andrea,
Andrea Mennucc wrote:
> 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)
>
>
> but then there is this web page
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libppd
[snip]
> -) where it says ``refer to the libppd package page'' there is an
> useless link http://packages.debian.org/libppd
This is indeed true and someone ought to remove the useless link, or
maybe instead point it to http://packages.qa.debian.org/libppd .
[snip]
> what is the meaning of this latter web page?
I guess it gives porters a place to file bugs like FTBFS that aren't
specific to a binary package, only to the source package. (This is IMO
since I've never seen a discussion on this before.)
> how come some bugs (such as the FTBFS bug) are appended to this page?
> and some other bugs are not?
Because the bugs went to the package page against which they were filed?
Apparently if you have a source package "foo" producing binary packages
"bar" and "baz", the BTS recognizes "Package: foo" as well as the latter
two.
> (this is the gravest fact of all: people checking
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libppd would fail to
> see bugs on their source packages)
That's why you should instead check
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libppd :-)
> (*) ps: currently
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=snmpkit and
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=snmpkit show
> identical lists; I had not time to investigate how many other
> packages suffer from the same situation; if someone reads this e-mail
> and knows of a source package that has no binary package by the same
> name, please check it
Probably this "situation" is the case for all source packages that do
not produce a binary package of the same name, but for which porters
have filed bugs against the source package. It was true for my
multi-binary source package cernlib (before I introduced a "cernlib"
binary meta-package).
regards,
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