On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:09:48PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Joy, could you put some docs for the "clone" command up on the BTS > web page? See below for the description
I'm commiting this to the docs now. Sorry for the delay. > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:01:27PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > As always, YMMV, and testing is the right place to report failures before > > filing bug reports. > > I've been thinking that maybe we should be a little more careful with > the reports even before its been analysed to the point where we can file > bugs against the appropriate packages. > > In that vein, there are two new pseudo-packages in the bug tracking system, > with the maintainer set to this list: > > http://bugs.debian.org/upgrade-reports > http://bugs.debian.org/installation-reports > > The theory is that when you do an install or an upgrade of the testing > distro you should write a little report and send it to the bug tracking > system. Once that's happened, people can help you analyse what packages > are causing the bugs you've experienced, and file bugs against the > correct packages. > > This latter part is (hopefully) made slightly easier by the new "clone" > command, which lets you duplicate a bug and then reassign/retitle the > new bug however you might want [0]. In theory, a user should be able > to file an install report to the BTS, which can then be followed up on > by a developer with a message to the bug number and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cloning and reassigning the bug to some/most/all of the packages that > had problems during the install, along with enough analysis that the > maintainers shouldn't need to get back to the original user. We should also let people know that these pseudo-packages exist. Should I add something to this effect to the testing web page, and to the other pages about bug reports about the installation? This sounds like a good replacement for boot-floppies (and other) packages... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. Please CC: mails for me to me because I don't read debian-testing.
