Re: Fwd: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

I've had some further thoughts. 

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:54:52PM +0100, chrisw wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:05:39PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote:
> > 
> > > What I want is a way of keeping an eye on packages in one of these
> > > metapackages to see that they are at least vaguely up to date and not
> > > full of RC bugs. I was then going to add it to
> > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience in the hope that scientists will
> > > help squash bugs in the science packages - and spot that maintainers
> > > have gone MIA.
> > 
> > I guess you want this
> > 
> >    http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs.php
> > 
> > for Debian Science, right?
> 
> Yes exactly what I was after - except that it doesn't track the
> upstream versions.
> 
> > 
> > > To achieve this, it would be possible to construct a URL by hand - but
> > > if I do this, it will rapidly become out of sync with the
> > > metapackage. It ought to be possible to generate this list from the
> > > package - but that wouldn't be possible in the wiki (I don't
> > > think). Is there another easy way that I've missed.

And through further exploration, I realise that rather than hand
crafting the URL each time, I could potentially subscribe
debian-science (or indeed a pseudo e-mail address) to all the bugs -
it is even possible to put them in different sections - physics,
chemistry etc.  The problem with doing this by hand is that it won't
be up to date with the task packages.

> > 
> > Well, the way to go is to factorize the nice work which was done by
> > David Paleino for Debian Med to work for all CDDs.  I started with the
> > tasks pages (and finished this part as you probably know) but I will
> > work on the bugs pages as well.  
> 
> That would be good. 
> 
> I actually prefer the layout of this page - particularly as it gives
> bug titles, but have a small concern that it is repeating the same
> work.

I think ultimately this should be an alternative way of viewing bugs
from the QA page - as it has much wider application. This would then
be a really nice prototype for how things could look.



> 
> > I hope that I will find some time
> > when beeing at DebCamp / DebConf.  Feel free to start working on it
> > if you like... :)
> 
> :-)

And I still haven't had time. 

Chris