[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Wed Dec 22 20:30:38 CET 2010

On mercredi 22 décembre 2010 at 18:46, Ahmad Samir wrote :
+> > Sorry for not beeing clear.
+> > What I propose is not for the case 'a bug originates from more than
+> > one package';
+> > but for the case 'a bug manifests itself in than one package'.
+> 
+> A bug that manifests in more than one package must originate from
+> 'some package', that 'some package' is the only one that should be in
+> the 'RPM Package' field; i.e that's the package that's going to need
+> fixing.
+
+I agree, but that doesn't mean the user is able to identify the problematic 
+package, even if he has good knowledge of the way packages work.
+
+Let's say for example that there is a problem with libxy, it is compiled 
+with a bad combination of optimizations that make some of its functions 
+behave randomly.
+appA appB and appC use libxy, but appC only use simple functions that are 
+not affected by the optimization problem, so only appA and appB behave 
+badly.
+Even if the user know about packages dependencies, as appC work fine he may 
+not come to the conclusion that libxy is causing the problem.
+But he may still consider the problems with appA and appB to be related 
+because they started at the same time (the latest update that included 
+libxy).
+So if he can fill a single bug report for both appA and appB, that is a good 
+hint to the developer that he should investigate in the dependencies those 
+apps have in common.
+
+So if you accept only one package per bug report, it may be harder to find 
+the actual cause, as those two apps may be maintained by different people, 
+each investigating the problem for his own app.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+