Re: [gentoo-dev] About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree

[Pacho Ramos]

El dom, 15-04-2012 a las 17:47 +0200, Marcin Mirosław escribió:
> W dniu 2012-04-14 13:02, Pacho Ramos pisze:
> > Hello
> >
> > From time to time I see old bug reports that are still wrongly
> > opened and referring to old packages no longer in the tree. Would
> > be possible to add a way to periodically check for bugs referring
> > in summary to obsolete packages and, then, allow us to have a
> > cleaner bug list?
>
> Hi,
> what about siutation package was removed from tree. After sometime
> other maintainer wants to put this package to the tree again,
> shouldn't fix those bugs before doing this?
> Marcin
>

As that results will simply be used to generate a list, it will be a
good opportunity to really check that developer is taking care of it (I
have also seen a lot of cases where a dev has a bug for this assigned to
him for months without action)