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 1SJS4X-0007Zu-2j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:13:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1EECE0841; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB20E0B7F for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.169.38.243] (212-226-74-50-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [212.226.74.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF8D81B4023 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F8AF2EB.7070501@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:10:19 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120406 Thunderbird/11.0.1 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree References: <1334401347.3181.2.camel@belkin4> <4F8AED77.20200@mejor.pl> In-Reply-To: <4F8AED77.20200@mejor.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d733ab03-246e-4ed5-9648-dddf49e8e11a X-Archives-Hash: 40fa41c1cda009a0afa17c8590a513dd On 04/15/2012 06:47 PM, Marcin Miros=B3aw 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=20 affecting foobar gets closed with resolution WONTFIX/OBSOLETE/FIXED=20 depending on type of the bug. When package foobar gets readded to Portage, the maintainer needs to=20 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