Bug#908650: reportbug: replaces package with source package for ROM package removal
As the FTP Team member doing most of the the removals work, I think that would be a helpful change.
Scott K
On January 1, 2019 11:07:50 PM UTC, Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> wrote:
>> Sometimes we need to report an RM bug against ftp.debian.org to
>remove
>> a binary package which is no longer built.
>>
>> reportbug deals with this in the interface for ftp.debian.org, asking
>> you for the name of the which package you want removed.
>>
>> But then after you specify the binary package that needs to be
>> removed, reportbug switches the Subject for the bug report to the
>> source package instead of the binary package. This means the package
>> needing removal is misrepresented and there is a danger the ftp team
>> will remove the entire source package. Not the outcome we want.
>>
>> A recent example is #907513 requesting to remove mshr-demos.
>> reportbug altered the Subject to mark mshr for removal instead of
>> mshr-demos. (Fortunately Adrian Bunk saw and corrected the mistake).
>
>I'd be ok to remove the implicit conversion from binary to source
>package when dealing with ftp.debian.org bugs
>(https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/blob/master/reportbug/debbugs.py#L267-271)
>but i need FTP masters to accept the change, here in CC
>
>Thanks,
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