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

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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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


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