Re: Proposal how to handle mass bug reports (was: Re: Bug Terrorism?
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 3) Any bug that can be detected by a script or other automated way should be
> implemented as Lintian check, because then the check applies also to all
> future versions of the package and all advantages of Lintian come into
> play.
> For this reason, it is better to get the check into Lintian than to
> submit the bugs personally; personal auto-generated bug reports are
> therefore unecessary and depreciated.
I periodically (semi-monthly) generate a small collection of automatically
generated bug reports detailing packages with new upstream versions
available. I generate these by looking at what is available on sunsite. This
is an example of an automated bug reporting process which does not fit in
lintian. Thus, I don't favor #3.
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