(First, I don't care how the autoconf.in->autoconf.ac migration is handled at a code level. This isn't about that. I'd appreciate if that were largely handled in a separate thread. This (I think) is about policy around bug reporting.)
Timeline: 1) *Bug 426262* <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262> was filed 2) SpanKY <mailto:vap...@gentoo.org> committedhttp://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.165&r2=1.166 , and marked #426262 RESOLVED/FIXED, with the intent of flushing out configure.in use cases. <http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.165&r2=1.166> 3) I hit SpanKY's eqawarn, and filed #530478. 4) Jer marked #530478 as a dupe of #426262, which was still marked #426262. 5) Being the only one who's apparently filed anything following this eqawarn, I kicked off an emerge -e @world to trawl for more use cases on my system. (I'd rather not have my system break when autotools is eventually upgraded.) (then there's a spat between Justin Lecher and Jer, but that's not relevant yet.) I'm confused about two things. First, if something is supposed to have attention paid to it (which I take to be the purpose of the eqawarn), I don't see how it makes sense for bug reports responding to the eqawarn to be marked as duplicate of a bug that's in the RESOLVED/FIXED state; who's going to pay attention to that, in the general case? (In this case, Justin saw it, unmarked the dupe, set up a tracker for the issue and marked my bug as a blocker for that.) Second, having my bug report marked as a dupe of one already in the RESOLVED/FIXED state tells me that my bug report was a waste of time. Reading the content of #426262 suggests to me that any further filings will also be marked as duplicates of the RESOLVED/FIXED bug, and thus also wastes of time. I don't mind burning a few CPU cycles if it's useful, but if it's just going to waste time, there's obviously no point, and I should kill the emerge I started. So...could I get some clarification here? I don't get the dupe-marking pattern, and I don't know whether or not I should kill off my emerge -e. <http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.165&r2=1.166>
