On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 17:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: linux-latest-2.6 > Severity: wishlist > > Currently we get bug reports on e.g. linux-image-2.6-686 which do not > include any of the useful information that is automatically gathered > by bug scripts in the real image packages. > > The image metapackages should either link to the bug scripts for the > real image packages they depend on, or include this control file which > I think will have the same effect: > Submit-As: linux-2.6 > Report-With: <real-image-package>
Unfortunately this doesn't work. reportbug will show some information about the image package, but: 1. It won't call the bug script (that's fixable; we can add a bug script to the meta package that exec's the one in the image package); 2. It won't show the extra related packages listed in the image package's bug control file; 3. It will still use the version number from the meta package (this is the killer). Therefore I have instead added a presubj file which directs users to report against the corresponding image package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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