Hi, Where might I get a copy of the bug database? Is there any way to search the bug database by text? I filed a bug (#187064 [1]) against bugs.debian.org, but I want to know if there may be some kind of work around. Please note that "good" search engines cannot be used due to the robots.txt file on bugs.debian.org.
I also noticed that several of the scripts on qa.debian.org that list the number of bugs for various packages do so incorrectly. They don't list merged bugs as one bug. This may cause problems with various metrics, but more importantly does the update excuses script count merged bugs as one? Is there any policy on when to close a bug besides the Developer's reference section 5.8.3 [2] section 6 which says "Once a corrected package is available in the unstable distribution, you can close the bug"? I think that release worthy (X.XrX+1) bugs should remain open until all the Debian distributions have the bug fixed. I think the distribution tags were created to encourage bugs remaining in specific distributions to remain open. The security team tracks security bugs, but there are other critical bugs that could be fixed in unstable but not allowed into testing before release. There is also the problem of packages getting rejected from proposed-updates. There is also a further problem of packages not being created to fix release worthy bugs in older distributions (like potato) which are still "supported". In all these cases it seems like policy prefers for the bugs, that these packages fix, to be closed. Has this issue been brought up before? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187064 [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-housekeeping Drew Daniels
