Re: Handling GCC-related orphan bugs

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 14.04.2012 13:14, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Hello
>
> I noticed that there are these orphan bugs (no maintainer set, the
> package that they are filed against is not present in Debian anymore).
> Perhaps there are some false positives or missing ones.
>
> They were gathered from [1], and the ones related to GCC are filteerd
> and pasted in the attached file (the list "flattened" to single lines
> in a text file, easy to parse e.g. to extract bug numbers and reassign
> in bulk).
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=
>        ^- (yes, with empy "maint" parameter)
>
> What should be done with them, reassign?  To which package, then?

I think any reassigments would be wrong. It needs somebody to go through the 
list of bugs to see if these are fixed. if yes, close them, if not, then 
reassign them to the package they can be reproduced with.  Do you volunteer to 
do this?

Thanks, Matthias