Re: Handling of new bugs filed against inexistent packages
On 16/05/13 at 19:48 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As you might have noticed today I made myself busy doing some bug triage
> from the 'unknown-package' bug list[1]
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=
>
> I couldn't help noticing there are quite a few new bugs filed against
> wrong/inexistent packages and should probably be dealt with as they are
> filed (reassigned to the correct package or closed as appropriate).
>
> Would it make sense for such bugs to be forwarded to -qa so that more
> people can look at them?
>
> As far as I know they currently go to unknown-package@qa.d.o but I have
> no idea how many persons are behind that alias and I see no reason for
> this to be handled by a private alias.
Hi Andrei,
I also see no reason to significantly increase the traffic on -qa@. :)
Currently, we have:
unknown-package: cjwatson, aliceinwire@gnumerica.org
If you are interested in working on that, could you reach out to them
and see if they need help?
There's also a UDD CGI that lists bugs filed against unknown packages:
http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugs-removed-packages.cgi
Lucas
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