Hi Andrea, Andrea Mennucc wrote:
> my source package has this web page in BTS > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libppd where you see > there are 4 bugs listed (resolved) > > > but then there is this web page > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libppd [snip] > -) where it says ``refer to the libppd package page'' there is an > useless link http://packages.debian.org/libppd This is indeed true and someone ought to remove the useless link, or maybe instead point it to http://packages.qa.debian.org/libppd . [snip] > what is the meaning of this latter web page? I guess it gives porters a place to file bugs like FTBFS that aren't specific to a binary package, only to the source package. (This is IMO since I've never seen a discussion on this before.) > how come some bugs (such as the FTBFS bug) are appended to this page? > and some other bugs are not? Because the bugs went to the package page against which they were filed? Apparently if you have a source package "foo" producing binary packages "bar" and "baz", the BTS recognizes "Package: foo" as well as the latter two. > (this is the gravest fact of all: people checking > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libppd would fail to > see bugs on their source packages) That's why you should instead check http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libppd :-) > (*) ps: currently > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=snmpkit and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=snmpkit show > identical lists; I had not time to investigate how many other > packages suffer from the same situation; if someone reads this e-mail > and knows of a source package that has no binary package by the same > name, please check it Probably this "situation" is the case for all source packages that do not produce a binary package of the same name, but for which porters have filed bugs against the source package. It was true for my multi-binary source package cernlib (before I introduced a "cernlib" binary meta-package). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
