Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:17:17
Message-Id: 1334740526.4993.6.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree by Pacho Ramos
1 El lun, 16-04-2012 a las 10:40 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
2 > El lun, 16-04-2012 a las 03:04 +0200, Jeroen Roovers escribió:
3 > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:55:04 +0200
4 > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > Well, I currently manually do eix searching to check it, maybe would
7 > > > be a way to compare eix outputs with "${CATEGORY}/${PKGNAME}" from bug
8 > > > summaries (bugs without that naming structure would be uncovered by
9 > > > this, but we would still be able to easily check for obsolete bug
10 > > > reports).
11 > >
12 > > I only started fixing summaries to include valid, canonical
13 > > cat/pkg[-ver] strings a few years ago because searching for a full
14 > > atom in bugzilla's search would otherwise (and still does) fail.
15 > >
16 > > Before that it was mayhem, and it's mainly the older bugs you appear be
17 > > worried about. Having a list of bugs to fix the cat/pkg for would have
18 > > more uses than the one you're interested in.
19 > >
20 > >
21 > > jer
22 > >
23 > >
24 >
25 > I obviously agree, but both suggestions are not mutually exclusive I
26 > think :)
27
28 This is another example I hit today:
29 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247750
30
31 that would benefit from this QA report

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature