From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SJMHM-0007wW-WC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:01:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5ECAE0AE5; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F2AE09CA for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:00:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (156.Red-2-137-14.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [2.137.14.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pacho) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77C411B400B for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree From: Pacho Ramos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1334483704.2557.3.camel@belkin4> References: <1334401347.3181.2.camel@belkin4> <20120414124245.323cba48@gentoo.org> <1334426068.3181.11.camel@belkin4> <20120415024729.52e5d909@gentoo.org> <1334483704.2557.3.camel@belkin4> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-C7qS2ksdujgu0llgENm+" Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1334484045.2557.7.camel@belkin4> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 X-Archives-Salt: 9c64dc3d-6261-450a-9416-cf60dcc1c0e1 X-Archives-Hash: f997f847a6882e777f6f88bdb5704d16 --=-C7qS2ksdujgu0llgENm+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El dom, 15-04-2012 a las 11:55 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribi=C3=B3: > El dom, 15-04-2012 a las 02:47 -0600, Ryan Hill escribi=C3=B3: > > > > > From time to time I see old bug reports that are still wrongly op= ened > > > > > and referring to old packages no longer in the tree. Would be pos= sible > > > > > 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? > >=20 > > How exactly would you do this? Maintain a list of all packages ever re= moved > > 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? >=20 > 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). >=20 > Regarding bugs asking package to be readded, that bugs should be > assigned to maintainer-wanted and, then, could be filtered. >=20 > >=20 > > > It's not for versions, only package names (there are still bugs > > > referring to already removed packages for months) > >=20 > > The person dumping the package should be checking for open bugs at the = time > > of removal. > >=20 > >=20 >=20 > I agree... but it's usually forgotten as I have seen >=20 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 ;) --=-C7qS2ksdujgu0llgENm+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk+KnE0ACgkQCaWpQKGI+9ReMQCeMQKst7PQ0JqajENzR1Bf1dKr EYcAn2zpAV1gAuWFvc6jZ/mvu3Mg50L1 =FP53 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-C7qS2ksdujgu0llgENm+--