Re: [UDD] Problem with bugs importer
On 01/07/14 at 23:40 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 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...
I wonder if we couldn't push this to the bug submitter or the last
modifier of the bug, by sending emails automatically to notify of
problems. Unfortunately it's quite hard to get such a script right...
Lucas
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