Re: RFH: handling bugs from removed packages
On 25/04/08 at 14:35 +0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > http://qa.debian.org/~lucas/bapase/bugs_rm_pkgs.txt (updated every 6 hours).
> > This script lists bugs that:
> > - are not marked as done
> > - don't affect testing, unstable or experimental
> > - don't belong to a package in testing, unstable or experimental
> > This is only a list of good candidates. Many of those bugs shouldn't be closed!
>
> Yep, in particular, this will also include bugs that were filed
> against an unknown package (for example because of a typo in the
> package name). I still take care of these bugs as they come in, but I
> always miss some so it would be good if I could easily see bugs that
> are not open bugs from removed packages. (In the past, I would close
> or reassign all bugs from removed packages, and then load the BTS page
> for bugs without a maintainer and reassign/close those until the page
> is empty. But with the current backlog of open bugs from removed
> packages, this BTS page is way too long to be usable.)
I added a note about this case in the README file.
> Do you think you could add one optional step to bugs_rm_pkgs.rb:
> exclude all bugs from packages that are listed in the removals.txt
> file. You could generate a file bugs_unknown_pkgs.txt and then I
> could go through them.
Is there a machine-parsable version of removals.txt? It's not exactly
fun to parse.
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