Given I already did this kind of work in the past, I think I can keep doing that.
cheers, Sandro On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:27, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- 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/BANLkTikf==ivf-ygl9dvk69l8hotjmn...@mail.gmail.com
