I'm looking for someone to take care of bugs of packages that have been removed from Debian. More information on the task is below. Anyone interested?
Note: I stopped taking care of such bug reports a fairly long time ago, so there's a lot of bugs that need to be processed right now. (Please CC since I'm not subscribed to -qa) Job description: When a package is removed from Debian, bugs associated with this package are not automatically closed or reassigned. While it's normally the job of the maintainer to take care of these bugs, this is often not done in practice and so QA needs to take care of these bug reports. Here is some information about this task: - When a package is removed because of a newer version (this is common with libraries and the kernel), it may be appropriate to reassign the bug to the new package. - When an old release of Debian is removed from the archive, a lot of bug reports lose their maintainer information since the BTS no longer knows how to associate the bug report with the package maintainer. Such bugs are usually very old. It may be appropriate to close these bugs with a message saying that this release of Debian is no longer supported and that they should file a new bug or let you know if the bug still exists in the current version of Debian. - When in doubt what to do, ask the maintainer how to handle the bugs or ask them to take care of it. - When closing a bug of a removed package, the best way is to done a message to -done and to include a Version header that is slightly higher than the last version in the archive (e.g. 1.0-1+rm for 1.0-1). - A QA alias removed-packages exists which receives a notification whenever a package is removed by the FTP masters. - Bug reports that don't have a maintainer associated with it can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=&pend-exc=absent&pend-exc=done -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110529102743.ga32...@jirafa.cyrius.com
