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One thing mageia-app-db +</I>><i> > >>>>> will do is search all bugs affecting an rpm. For that search to be +</I>><i> > >>>>> meaningfull all affected rpms should be mentioned. +</I>><i> > >>>> +</I>><i> > >>>> 'One bug per report' is what we should do (did); if a bug originates +</I>><i> > >>>> from more than one package, a separate report for each of them should +</I>><i> > >>>> be opened with the Block/Dependency set correctly. +</I>><i> > >>> +</I>><i> > >>> Sorry for not beeing clear. +</I>><i> > >>> What I propose is not for the case 'a bug originates from more than +</I>><i> > >>> one package'; +</I>><i> > >>> but for the case 'a bug manifests itself in than one package'. +</I>><i> > >> +</I>><i> > >> A bug that manifests in more than one package must originate from +</I>><i> > >> 'some package', that 'some package' is the only one that should be in +</I>><i> > >> the 'RPM Package' field; i.e that's the package that's going to need +</I>><i> > >> fixing. +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > Sorry again, what I mean, and should have written, is : +</I>><i> > > 'a bug manifests itself in one package, but in more than one -version-release'. +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > There's no way in bugzilla to do this at the moment (there's talk +</I>><i> > about this being implemented in bugzilla-4.0, which I haven't tried +</I>><i> > before). Traditionally the Whiteboard field was used for such issues +</I>><i> > (or separate reports were opened for each affected stable release). +</I>><i> > Having a multi-line RPM Package wouldn't be the way to go with this +</I>><i> > (IMHO). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In fact I think Frederic was talking about several versions of the same +</I>><i> package, not necessarily several versions of the distribution. However, +</I>><i> I don't think we can or should ask people to write down every package +</I>><i> version which has the bug. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We can guess many things automatically, provided the information is of +</I>><i> good quality (the RPM/SRPM field always has a complete filename in it, +</I>><i> and all affected versions of the distribution are flagged, whatever the +</I>><i> way used for that : multivalue field when it'll be possible, whiteboard meanwhile...). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For those who don't wan't to read everything, example 1 may be enough, +</I>><i> I'm just trying to cover several cases, not that every case brings +</I>><i> something really important to the discussion. My point in those examples +</I>><i> is that we can provide useful information regarding bugs on packages in +</I>><i> software managers or mageia-app-db, but that depends on the information +</I>><i> present in the bug reports, that's what I'd like this to be taken into +</I>><i> account in bug handling processes. +</I> +What about using the changelog for signalling what bug +have been closed ? + +Something like what is done by debian +<A HREF="http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-bugfix">http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-bugfix</A> + +-- +Michael Scherer +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001876.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001880.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1877">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1877">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1877">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1877">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |