Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 14:57 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>> BTS and online changelogs linked from the PTS ? >> For upstream, for Debian people - enough. My proposal is to make >> user-oriented list. Long changelog entries with some inner packaging >> info and other stuff and viewing dozen of patches (even with good >> comments) imho, is not what user have to do to answer on the simple >> questions "Have Debian version of package foo, version x.y.z the fix for >> A?" and "Have Debian version of package foo, version x.y.z the feature B?". > > Without some form of coordination between all the different bug > trackers, this will never be possible. Security bugs have a > long-standing mechanism for identifying specific issues and therefore > specific fixes across distributions. Other bugs do not - different users > report the same issue in different ways. *IF* the bug is forwarded > upstream, then the upstream bug tracker reference is probably sufficient > but that works best for upstream (who know which patterns to try and > find), not users. > > In essence, your request comes down to: > > How does a user decide if the fix for issue A in Distro X is equivalent > to the fix for issue B in Distro Y? I see no particular solution to that > other than knowing how each distro records upstream bug references. Even > then, you need upstream to be on-the-ball in marking bugs as duplicates > or merged. > > The question is far from simple. > > It works for security bugs because a lot of people ensure that it works > - doing it for other issues will require as much, if not more, work. > Thanks a lot for your answer. I've understood that at least some coordination is needed, and this coordination will cost additional human resources. Though, I would be glad to see the proposed feature in some future.
-- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF
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