Re: [gentoo-dev] New tool for updating Bug summaries after package moves: bugsed

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've made a quick tool that can perform search-and-replacement
> on Bugzilla bugs, so if you move a package, you can quickly update
> hundreds of bugs filed against it.

Nice!

>
> https://github.com/projg2/bugsed
>
> Note that it just does dumb text replacement with substring match, so it
> can be greedy.  By default, it just does a dry-run, `-u` to update.
>
> You may also want to try pkgmove from mgorny-dev-scripts, which is also
> dumb as hell, greedy on seding stuff and requires you to rename ebuilds
> inside the package directory first.

Could you run it over historical updates (at least from the last year)?
I can do it if you give me whatever recipe you used as well (or if not,
can get to it later again when bored).