Re: Multi-bug filing question

[Simon Kainz <simon@familiekainz.at>]

Am 2014-01-04 23:22, schrieb Niels Thykier:
> On 2014-01-04 23:16, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:36:20 +0100, Simon Kainz wrote:
> >
> > > Dropping the "+ssh" part leads to working urls. So my question is:
> > > Is there some way (or recommendation) to easily file this bug
> > > against ~20 packages?
> >
> > The devscripts package has a script called mass-bug that can help.
> >
> > Please also check the section about mass bug filing in the
> > Developers' Reference:
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs
> >
> > > Or is this maybe not worth a bug? I would
> > > rather file this issue as a bug in favor of contacting Maintainers
> > > directly, just to make sure emails don't get lost. I'm also fine
> > > with opening those bugs one by one.
> >
> > I also think that it's a bug and worth reporting in the BTS.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > gregor
>
> Note that there is a Lintian tag for this particular issue[1] that 
> also
> finds other issues with URIs used in all Vcs fields.
Wow great, thank you. (Seems like the is a lintian check for almost 
everything :-) ) But I will still go for filing those bugs, as explained 
in 
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs.

Those URLs are incorrect since i remember working with source package 
data and are trivial to fix.

Simon.

> ~Niels
>
> [1]
>
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/vcs-field-uses-not-recommended-uri-format.html