Re: BTS and qa.debian.org strangeness
Dear BTS masters,
it seems that recently some problems have been introduced in the BTS.
The following email exchange explains the two independent problems
(one being bug reports sent to the wrong adress, one being that the
dev pages are not updated).
On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 18:26 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > thanks for the answers, but ...
> >
> > On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > * bug 670494 filed against ptex-bin, which is currently maintained
> > > > by debian-tex-maint mailing list, but the bug report was sent
> > > > (long after take over) to the old maintainer, so we missed it
> > > >
> > > > * bug 672491 same case with old texpower maintainer
> > >
> > > Looks like a problem of confusion between binary and source package
> > > names. Yes, you maintain that binary package now, but not the source
> > > package of the same name.
> >
> > Right, but a bug reported against the bin package should be sent to
> > the debian-tex-maint list.
>
> Yes. Talk to owner@bugs.debian.org.
>
> > > > * package.qa.debian.org page is outdated and lists old versions
> > > > as currently included
> > >
> > > The ptex-bin source package is still present in unstable on
> > > debian-ports.
> >
> > No, I mean the versions of texlive-* in unstable:
> > I see on the QA package:
> > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=preining@debian.org
>
> At the bottom of that page:
>
> Updated: general information: Tue May 8 23:16:52 UTC 2012, projectb: Mon May 14 09:30:12 UTC 2012, bugs: Mon May 14 09:20:15 UTC 2012. Time needed to generate page: 0.07s
>
> so some update seems to have stopped running.
>
> > texlive-doc/extra/lang/base 2011.20120424-1
> >
> > but an
> > apt-cache texlive-base
> > shows me:
> > texlive-base:
> > Installed: 2011.20120511-1
> > Candidate: 2011.20120511-1
> > Version table:
> > *** 2011.20120511-1 0
> > 499 file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ unstable/ Packages
> > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > 2011.20120509-1 0
> > 499 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
> >
> >
> > 2011.20120511-1 is my test version here
> >
> > But 2011.20120509-1 is in the archive, definitely, but the QA pages still
> > lists 2011.20120424-1.
> >
> > And this since 1 week or so since 20120509.
> >
> > So the QA pages are borked at the moment.
>
> The PTS has this right; only the developer summary doesn't.
All the best
Norbert
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