Bug#753683: tracker.debian.org: '1 bug tagged help in the BTS', but no bug is open
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 23:41:51 +0200 Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> [ Cc owner@bugs.debian.org for a question ]
Sorry; I missed this the first time around until Paul Wise pinged me on
IRC about it.
> On Fri, 04 Jul 2014, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> > Looking at [1] I find it strange, that it says:
> > '1 bug tagged help in the BTS'
> > While at the same time there is no open bug and indeed clicking on the '1
> > bug' link leads to [2] without a bug.
> >
> > Probably the tracker finds #591881 and doesn't realize that this is already
> > closed.
>
> No, in fact, the tracker finds #704070. The status information about
> this bug as returned by the BTS is the following:
>
> $ bts status 704070
> bug_num 704070
> log_modified 1390397228
> id 704070
> found libav/6:0.8.5-1 =>
> pending pending
> date 1364400182
> package ffmpeg
> location db-h
> msgid <CADdDZR=J=1N6oV8HmZgOJ4a3+xG5SmoJBeBwtCPpwyP6t3+KTQ@mail.gmail.com>
> keywords help wontfix
> severity minor
> source ffmpeg, ffmpeg-debian, ffmpeg-free, libav
> last_modified 1390397228
> tags help wontfix
> found_versions libav/6:0.8.5-1
> subject ffmpeg: obsolete-conffile as reported by adequate
> originator shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>
>
> Right now we rely on the "package" field to assign the bugs tagged
> help to the corresponding source package.
You should just use the source field. It is very difficult to get the
package->source mapping right without all of the information that the
BTS has at its disposal.
> It would be nice if we could just use the "source" field instead of
> doing our own mapping bug the value of the "source" field doesn't make
> much sense to me... why does it list so many source packages and not
> only one like on
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704070 ?
It lists multiple sources because this bug was filed against the ffmpeg
binary package, which is built from those sources, but then had a found
version which matched libav. The BTS errs on the side of including all
relevant source packages in cases like this.
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Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
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