[Reportbug-maint] Bug#613716: reportbug: Don't add release tags

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:31:44 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:07:39PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > Hi Kurt,
> > 
> > Those tags are presented only when mode is 'advanced' or 'expert':
> > 
> >   * bin/reportbug, reportbug/{debianbts.py, utils.py}
> >     - don't present suite tags ('sid', 'lenny', etc) when running in modes lower
> >       than 'advanced'; thanks to Julien Cristau for the report; Closes: #583890
> > 
> > Since it was requested by a release team member (the audience for
> > those tags, mainly), and since we should give 'experienced' reportbug
> > users some freedom, I'm in favor to leave the situation as it is, but
> > I'm adding Julien in cc to hear his opinion on that.
> 
> I'd say that those tags should probably only be set by release
> team or qa team people, in most cases not even at report time.
> 
> Maybe we could add warnings in some cases, like when sid is not
> selected?
> 
Yeah these tags seem to be abused more often than not, so if offering
them in advanced mode isn't enough to stop that then maybe we should
just not give that option.  Things have gotten better after #583890 was
fixed though IME.

Cheers,
Julien