On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 22:46:36 +0100 Justin B Rye wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > >> and I'm not going to try rushing > >> off ahead until I know whether I'm on the right track at last. > > > > Fair enough. > > I hope I will be able to clarify the last cryptic bits, as soon as we > > get a reply from Debbugs maintainers... > > Before I forget where we were in all this, here's roughly what I was > thinking of suggesting for the options in question: [...] Wow, that's a major rewrite of part of the man page! Do you release it under the same license terms as apt-listbugs (GPLv2 or later [1])? [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/apt-listbugs/current/copyright > Note that I've sorted the pending-state values into order. So, does > it really default to showing "done" bugs but not "fixed" ones? It seems so. For instance, the BTS web interface tells me [2] that bug #686833 is currently in pending-state "fixed", has severity "grave" and is present in unstable. [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?include=pending%3Afixed;dist=unstable;severity=grave Let's see what apt-listbugs tells me: $ apt-listbugs -s grave list git-extras Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done $ apt-listbugs -s grave -S fixed list git-extras Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done grave bugs of git-extras (-> ) <fixed> #686833 - git-extras - git-gh-pages - removes all files Summary: git-extras(1 bug) > Is that deliberate, or just some kind of accidental oversight? I am not sure, since I "inherited" the code when I adopted the apt-listbugs package and I have not yet touched this part of the program... It really looks like an accidental oversight: as far as I can tell, the fact that there's the "fixed" tag means that a NMU is going to fix the bug, but does not guarantee in itself the the NMU is already available for the distribution you are using (maybe the NMU is not yet uploaded, or is delayed, or is available in unstable, but you use testing, and so forth...). Mmmmh, you have probably spotted a bug in apt-listbugs... Thanks for pointing it out. I will think about it and I will probably fix it, sooner or later (but I don't know whether such a change is acceptable during a freeze... so maybe later). As far as the "absent" pending-state is concerned, I seem to be unable to find a bug report that is claimed to be in this state by the BTS SOAP response... :-/ But not showing "absent" bugs seems to be the right thing to do for apt-listbugs, so I am not even sure this pending-state should really be documented in the apt-listbugs man page... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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