I can probably take over this too. Sandro
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:16, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote: > Over the years, with the help of Colin Watson and others, I've handled > bug reports for packages that the BTS doesn't know about (either > because the package was removed, is in some unofficial repo or because > the bug submitter made a typo). I'm looking for someone to take over > this activity. I've included more information below on what is > involved. > > Anyone interested? > > P.S. Is there a good place in the wiki to add this job description. > I think it would be worth to preserve it there for the future. > > (Please CC since I'm not subscribed to -qa) > > > Job description: > > When a bug is filed in the BTS for a package that is not in the Debian > archive, the bug report is sent to the QA unknown-package alias. The > bug report then needs to be handled in an appropriate manner, e.g. > reassigned to another package (for example when there's a typo in the > package name) or closed (when the package no longer exists in the Debian > archive). > > When a bug report for an unknown package comes in, the following > information can be checked to decide what to do about the bug: > > - Check the NEW queue at http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html and > the incoming queue at http://incoming.debian.org The BTS doesn't > know about packages in NEW or incoming but bug reports for such > packages are worthwhile reports. You can simply bounce a copy of > the bug report to the maintainer or reply to the bug and put the > maintainer in CC. > > - Check the list of removed packages at > http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-full.txt > If the package was removed from Debian, you can close the bug report > saying that the package was removed and why it was removed. > > - Check the Content file to see if the unknown package name is a valid > in an existing package. > > - Often the package name in the bug report is an obvious typo for an > existing package. In that case, you can simply reassign the bug, > ideally with a version number (reassign nnnnn package version). > > - We often get bug reports for linux-image-2.6.xx* packages that no > longer exist. They should be reassigned to the linux-2.6 package > since they might still be relevant. > > - We also get a lot of bug reports for packages in the unofficial > Debian Multimedia repository at debian-multimedia.org. The best > way to handle such reports is to CC the debian-multimedia.org > maintainer, Christian Marillat <maril...@debian.org>, and close > them with a message that debian-multimedia.org is not an official > repo and that you have copied the maintainer. > > - Finally, if you don't know where the package comes from, you can ask > the submitter. Suggest that they run: > dpkg -p PACKAGE | grep Maintainer: > to see who the maintainer is. > > -- > 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/20110529101628.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/BANLkTi=pqixd0mk9s3r7rkti6aqncjr...@mail.gmail.com
