On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Well, I did ask for the creation of port-specific tags back at > debconf8 (if I'm not mistaken), but you told me to go for usertags > instead ;-)
Sounds familiar. Usertags have the advantage of not requiring me to do any work. But presumably at the time I hadn't thought of the difficulties of coordinating all of the different usertags between porters. > Yes, I think that's a good idea; it would avoid issues where > maintainers are waiting on porters and vice versa, since the > reassigning of a bug to a port pseudopackage would make it clear who's > waiting for whom. Additionally, it would allow porters to have a todo > list of things that need to be done for their port but aren't specific > to any one package (or of which the root cause hasn't been found yet, > e.g., "recently compiled binaries segfault, but we don't know why > yet") > > If you're going down this road, I would appreciate it if ports listed on > debian-ports.org would also be getting pseudopackages. Since they would all be under the same ports.debian.org (or similar) namespace, I wouldn't have a problem with it. [My main concern about pseudopackages is polluting the package namespace; since I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to create a package called someport.ports.debian.org for a sane reason, that shouldn't be a big deal.] It would also be possible (in the meantime) for bugs to be assigned to both the port-specific pseudopackage, and the original package which spawned the bug. In any event, if a few active porters wouldn't mind creating a wishlist bug against bugs.debian.org for this with a suggested course of action, I'd appreciate it. Assuming there is no significant disagreement about that course of action, I'd like to implement it within a week or so. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon behind the computer has something significant to say. -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131105201345.ga9...@rzlab.ucr.edu
