Hi I don't understand what the 'sid' tag is for and who is allowed to set it.
Bug #318692 and #320218 have been assigned to the packages xlib-dev, bookmarkbridge and 3ddesktop. Both of those bugs deal with changing build-deps for Xorg. Since we already have a 3ddesktop package with fixed dependencies ready for upload (see pending bug #319120) I reassigned the two bugs to the packages bookmarkbridge and xlib-dev. (This seems easier to me than cloning the bugs, reassigning the clones to my package and merging them with the pending bug). During this procedure, I noticed that bug #318692 and #320218 were tagged as 'sid'. I wrongly admitted that the 'sid' tag was for sid what the 'sarge' tag is for sarge and the 'etch' tag for etch: A tag which marks that the bug applies to sid. I knew that the 'sarge-ignore' and 'etch-ignore' tags should only be used by the release managers. To make sure that this is not the case for the 'sid' tag, I checked [0] and saw that there were no such restrictions. I wanted to tag bug #319120 as 'sid', but it failed (see [1]): # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.14 tags 319120 - sid Is it possible that I am not allowed to set the 'sid' tag on bugs of my packages? If yes, this should be documented in [0] as it is for the '*-ignore' tags in my opinion. The second thing I don't quite understand is the description of the 'sid' tag (also in [0]): This bug particularly applies to an architecture that is currently unreleased (that is, in the sid distribution). I didn't quite understand the meaning of the clarification in the brackets, to I checked the German version of the page and still didn't understand it (even though I'm a native German speaker). Then I checked the French version and things became clearer. But as far as I can see, the 'sid' tag is used in a different context. Bug #318692 I mentioned above for example tells us that we have to build-depend on stuff like libxxf86vm-dev because it isn't in xlibs-dev (formerly in xlibs-static-dev) anymore. This applies to _every_ architecture. Or another example: Bug #221224 deals with the wrong size of a window, but the bug description doesen't mention any particularly affected architecture. I hope anyone can tell me what I misunderstood or fix the descriptions. Best regards Mathias Weyland [0] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319120&msg=33 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
