Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 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 11:55 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> El dom, 15-04-2012 a las 02:47 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
> > > > > 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?
> >
> > How exactly would you do this?  Maintain a list of all packages ever removed
> > from the tree?  What if the package name is a common word?  What about bugs
> > requesting a previously removed package be re-added?  Or a different
> > project using the same name?
>
> Well, I currently manually do eix searching to check it, maybe would be
> a way to compare eix outputs with "${CATEGORY}/${PKGNAME}" from bug
> summaries (bugs without that naming structure would be uncovered by
> this, but we would still be able to easily check for obsolete bug
> reports).
>
> Regarding bugs asking package to be readded, that bugs should be
> assigned to maintainer-wanted and, then, could be filtered.
>
> >
> > > It's not for versions, only package names (there are still bugs
> > > referring to already removed packages for months)
> >
> > The person dumping the package should be checking for open bugs at the time
> > of removal.
> >
> >
>
> I agree... but it's usually forgotten as I have seen
>

Also, the idea is to simply generate a list with possible obsolete bug
reports, closing would still be done manually after checking for false
positives ;)