Bug#1028530: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ says tag 'forky' exists, bugs.debian.org says it does not

[Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>]

Control: retitle -1 www.debian.org/Bugs should get tags from BTS

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:13:41 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> To reproduce:
> - look at the list of valid tags in https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
> - see that trixie, trixie-ignore, forky and forky-ignore are in the list
> - try to tag a bug "+ trixie forky" (I tried to do this in #885563)
>
> Expected result: either tagging a bug + forky succeeds, or the list of
> valid tags does not include forky until it becomes relevant.
>
> Actual result: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ lists forky and forky-ignore,
> but when I tried to use the forky tag, the BTS replied:

This is now fixed; I filed bug 1029978 without noticing this bug. 
1029978 got promptly fixed: thanks.

> Ideally the web page would receive the list of valid tags from the BTS
> instead of having its own idea of what is valid.

I think this remains true. I this case I pinged on IRC for an update of 
the tags and then continued to update the documents. In hindsight that 
wasn't too smart.

Paul

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