On Jul 1, 2014 2:25 PM, "Lucas Nussbaum" <lucas@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 01/07/14 at 10:03 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since some time the bug importer cron job has the output
> >
> > Invalid bug: #752319: O:geary -- mail client written in Vala
> >
> > Any idea what might be wrong here?
>
> yes, missing space after 'O:'.
> It's actually not the bugs importer, but the orphaned-packages importer,
> that takes WNPP bugs, parse them, and fills the orphaned_packages table.
>
> In that case, it would make sense to fix the regexp to handle the 'no
> space after :' case. Even if the formatting is wrong, there are so many
> bugs that don't follow strictly the required formatting that it's better
> to be tolerant.
>
Just for reference, there is this page that lists all issues with the metadata of wnpp and rfs bugs:
http://qa.debian.org/~bartm/wnpp-rfs-mentors/wnpp-inconsistencies.txt
Two weeks ago I did a cleanup, greatly reducing the list (at least the wnpp part), but people doesn't seem to be able to follow the very few rules behind wnpp bugs...