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Bug#697602: Bug count confusion when "unrelated" binary and source has same name



Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: britney

Adam, Julien and I talked about this in #d-qa today and it turns out
that Britney cannot reliably distinguish between RC bugs affecting
source packages and RC bugs affecting binary packages.

If a source package produces and identically named binary
(e.g. src:eclipse produces a binary named eclipse), it usually doesn't
matter which of them gets the "blame".  The problem is when a binary
has the same name as a source that _doesn't_ built it.  An example
in the archive being:

 source:sm builds binary r-cran-sm,
 source:screen-message builds binary sm

If a BugsV file contains "sm 123456" Britney will assume that RC bug
applies to _both_ the source package "sm" and the binary "sm" (and
thus "screen-message").

~Niels


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