control: tags -1 patch On 3 Sep 2009 James Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > > In doing a little more poking around, I see this is only an issue when > using querybts on a source package. This may simply be an artifact of > screen-scraping the BTS, but I'd have to do some tests with the BTS' > SOAP interface to verify that. > > It does make sense that the source-based view wouldn't show it since > affects is usually used against a binary package. The downside to the > default source-based view that querybts (used via reportbug) is that the > user likely misses the bugs affecting the package against which the bug > is being filed. > > One potential solution is to specifically query the binary package bug > pages for the "affects" bugs, but that's a potential drastic increase in > traffic to the BTS per reportbug invocation. The long-term goal of > switching to SOAP would likely make this trivial.
There is now a merge request on salsa that will make reportbug/querybts also list bugs that affect the target package: https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/merge_requests/51 However, this small change does not solve the other problem already hinted at above: By default reportbug shows the list of bugs belonging to the source package of the target package, while "affects:" are more likely to be set for binary target packages. Really showing a more complete bug list by default would therefore require a different approach.
