Re: Help getting a bug report in order

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We took a bug report from a Debain maintainer under Debian's X32
> environment (https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port). Our bugs triggered some
> Debian bugs as we worked through some of the issues.
>
> One of the issues we encountered was GDB's inability to debug a C++
> program. It was reported at
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799556.
>
> I'm trying to tidy it up, but https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer
> and its email control messages are not very helpful.
>
> At this point, I *think* I need to perform 3 tasks, with an optional 4th task:
>
> (1) add the "port-x32" tag or category to the report because the
> fellow writing the X32 wiki page appears to monitor it (see Bug
> Reports at the end of https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port).
>
> (2) add the BTS "upstream" tag because the bug satisfies the condition
> "This bug applies to the upstream part of the package" per
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.
>
> (3) add the BTS "patch" tag because the fix satisfies the condition "A
> patch or some other easy procedure for fixing the bug" per
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.
>
> (4) it would probably be helpful to other X32 developers to ensure the
> new GDB is built and made available.
>

Thanks to Wookey, Paul, Rebecca, Jakub, I was able to send the control
email for report.

The control messaged resulted in a few issues:

  Processing control commands:

    > user debian-x32@lists.debian.org
    Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.

    > usertags -1 + port-x32
    Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.

    > tags -1 + patch upstream
    Bug #799556 [gdb] GDB cannot debug a program on the X32 platform
    (internal-error: find_new_threads_once...)
    Added tag(s) patch and upstream.

At this point, I've made the good faith effort for the X32 Port
maintainer, and what he suggests under "Bug Reports" at the bottom of
the page https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port.

Does anything else need to be done?

Jeff