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

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 04/15/2012 06:47 PM, Marcin Mirosław wrote:
> 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
>
>

When package foobar gets removed from Portage, the remaining bugs 
affecting foobar gets closed with resolution WONTFIX/OBSOLETE/FIXED 
depending on type of the bug.
When package foobar gets readded to Portage, the maintainer needs to 
check also for closed bugs.
That's how it is now, and the workflow wouldn't change with this proposal.

So you are right, but irrelevant to the /topic in hand.

- Samuli