Martin Schulze wrote: > Is somebody working on this? Does somebody else than you want to achive > this?
I'm very interested in making this happen, but I don't know how I can get the necessary changes made to the system with the BTS on it. I suppose the first step is to modify debbugs.. > I mean, what are archived bugs worth which were in distributions > from ages ago? Distribs that we don't support anymore, that we don't > run anymore, that we have withdrawn ourselves for good reason, that we > discourage to use - and bugs that are not present in new versions of > the relevant packages. I can think of a variety of reasons. One is plain historical interest. I'd like to read bug #1 sometime (or whatever the number of the first substantial bug was). I'd like to read a few hundred of the first bugs to get a fell for what the project was like back then and what issues they were grappling with. And I expect others might feel the same way in 5 years about today's bugs. There are more practical reasons too. There are changelogs today that say stuff like "* defoo'd the bar (#1012)" or worse, " * fixed bug #1012", which is completly incomprehensible unless you can get at bug #1012. And it can be useful to go back and read the bug report that resulted in a change being made in a packafe if you no longer understand the purpose of that change. Another even better reason is writing a regression test suite. This is something I'd like to do for debhelper, for example. If I had a complete bug history for debhelper, I could add regression tests to ensure those bugs don't recurr. -- see shy jo
