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Re: Handling of new bugs filed against inexistent packages



On Jo, 16 mai 13, 20:24:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 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@. :)

Would you know how many mails that is?
 
> Currently, we have:
> unknown-package: cjwatson, aliceinwire@gnumerica.org

CCed.

> If you are interested in working on that, could you reach out to them
> and see if they need help?

Yes, I'm interested. Feel free to add me to the alias if there are no 
objections from your side.

> There's also a UDD CGI that lists bugs filed against unknown packages:
> http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugs-removed-packages.cgi

This lists quite a lot more bugs than the BTS URL above. I wonder where 
the difference is coming from...

Kind regards,
Andrei
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