[Reportbug-maint] Emdebian version strings and the BTS

[Neil Williams]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:02:30 +0100
Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Neil,
> sorry for not replying until now

That's OK.
 
> > I only had a quick chance to look at the reportbug issue during FOSDEM
> > so this is the first time I've had a chance to discuss the idea of how
> > to patch reportbug with anyone - my next email was to file the bug with
> > the initial patch and get feedback from the reportbug maintainers.
> >
> > I should probably have done that the other way around, sorry.
> 
> Ah not problem, given the small size of the proposed patch; I was fear
> of a very impacting patch, that's why I wanted to "shout" asap :)
> 
> > This is my initial stab at a patch:
> >
> > $ diff -u reportbug-3.41/reportbug reportbug.new/reportbug
> > --- reportbug-3.41/reportbug    2008-06-04 16:20:36.000000000 +0100
> > +++ reportbug.new/reportbug     2009-02-06 18:41:59.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -1193,6 +1193,10 @@
> >             (pkgversion, pkgavail, depends, recommends, conffiles, maintainer,
> >              installed, origin, vendor, reportinfo, priority, desc, src_name,
> >              fulldesc, state) = status
> > +            emdebian = re.search('em[0-9]$', pkgversion, re.M | re.I)
> > +            if emdebian:
> > +                ewrite('%s (%s) is an Emdebian package, redirecting to buildd.emdebian.org.\n',package, pkgversion)
> > +                package="buildd.emdebian.org"
> >
> >         buginfo = '/usr/share/bug/' + package
> >         bugexec = submitas = submitto = presubj = None
> >
> > Hastily prepared on the Eurostar on the way to FOSDEM and the first
> > time I've ever had to actually patch python. ;-)
> >
> > It worked in basic testing but I'm sure you'll have ideas on how it can
> > be improved.
> 
> It does the job, that's fine. We (maints) should think about a way to
> easily reassign bugs given a set of rules. Since nothing was done so
> far in this direction, your patch is fine (please, rebase your work on
> the reportbug experimental version, that will soon be uploaded in
> sid).

OK, I'll file a bug against reportbug with the refreshed patch this
weekend (by which I almost certainly mean Sunday as I'm working all
day Saturday and my job is not computer-related). 

Thanks.

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