On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi > >> I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had >> just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry >> about that. >> >> Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create architecture >> tags in the BTS. I've always felt that such a thing would be useful, >> because often porters are unaware of architecture-specific bugs, simply >> because there's no way in the BTS to actually search for them. Having >> such an ability could make porters of a particular architecture aware of >> the issues that affect their architecture, and (where necessary) able to >> help out. > > Note that porters can find many issues just by looking at the buildd.d.o > [0] pages even for issues not (yet) known in the BTS for which they > could file bugs.
Sometimes bug are arch specific. For instance a recent bug in librsvg was due to a floatting point rounding. Under sparc the bug produce a divide by zero, whereas under i386 it work normally. So arch tags are useful. Regards Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
