On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > Currently bugs in packages removed from Debian are handled by > manually closing the bugs and marking them as fixed in 0.1-2+rm. I > think this is the wrong approach and debbugs should automatically > archive & close bugs when the package is removed from Debian and > automatically unarchive and reopen bugs when the package is added > back to Debian.
They're automatically archived if they've been closed. We don't automatically unarchive them, because there's no way for us to know whether a bug should be automatically unarchived, or to even know if a new package has been added. However, there is some support for the automatic unarchiving of bugs which no longer satify the archiving requirements (IE, appear to affect unstable or testing) which would effectively do what you're asking (while not doing precisely that.) This latter bit can be done manually now simply by unarchiving these bugs manually using the pkgreport.cgi options. [Well, you can in theory do so... the query to actually doing it is taking quite a bit here, so I won't give you think link.] Don Armstrong -- G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do? EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area. -- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
