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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Wed Dec 22 20:38:06 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 22 December 2010 21:30, Renaud MICHEL <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> On mercredi 22 décembre 2010 at 18:46, Ahmad Samir wrote :
</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'.
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</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.
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</I>><i> I agree, but that doesn't mean the user is able to identify the problematic
</I>><i> package, even if he has good knowledge of the way packages work.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Let's say for example that there is a problem with libxy, it is compiled
</I>><i> with a bad combination of optimizations that make some of its functions
</I>><i> behave randomly.
</I>><i> appA appB and appC use libxy, but appC only use simple functions that are
</I>><i> not affected by the optimization problem, so only appA and appB behave
</I>><i> badly.
</I>><i> Even if the user know about packages dependencies, as appC work fine he may
</I>><i> not come to the conclusion that libxy is causing the problem.
</I>><i> But he may still consider the problems with appA and appB to be related
</I>><i> because they started at the same time (the latest update that included
</I>><i> libxy).
</I>><i> So if he can fill a single bug report for both appA and appB, that is a good
</I>><i> hint to the developer that he should investigate in the dependencies those
</I>><i> apps have in common.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So if you accept only one package per bug report, it may be harder to find
</I>><i> the actual cause, as those two apps may be maintained by different people,
</I>><i> each investigating the problem for his own app.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Renaud Michel
</I>><i>
</I>
Sure, but there's strace and gdb crash backtraces, that's what devs
use to find where a crash/bug happens, whether it's in their
package/code or somewhere else.
To be more clear it's "one bug per report", that bug originates from a
package, that's what gets to be put in the 'RPM Package' field; it's
not unheard of that the 'RPM Package' field is changed through out the
life cycle of a bug report.
--
Ahmad Samir
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