Re: Reporting a bug that affects more than one package

[Terry Roy <tech@futurecourse.com>]

Hi,

On 21/12/2017 19:26, Andy Smith wrote:

> > From time to time Debian Developers scan for previously-known bugs
> in the entire archive and apply a Mass Bug Filing to alert package
> maintainers of the problem.
Good to know. Thanks.

> I think you should report essentially the same bug in the other
> package, with a mention to your previous bug number. If you have a
> way to detect the presence of the bug then include details of that.
> Hopefully someone with the ability to do an MBF will then be able to
> do so.

I've reported it to both packages I've found it in as well as the fix 
for it.

> Your quest for a way to find buggy packages might be helped by
> https://codesearch.debian.net/
>
> Cheers,
> Andy

I did a search there but it seems it's for source code only.

Thanks.

--
Terry