On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:36:07PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > The URL http://bugs.debian.org/pkg?version=1.0 doesn't work, whereas
> > http://bugs.debian.org/pkg&version=1.0 does. This is probably
> > because the apache rewriting rules simply replace
> > http://bugs.debian.org/ by
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=
> >
> > Could they be made slightly more sophisticated so as to capture both
> > cases?
>
> Can you explain why this is even desirable?
>
> That type of rewriting gets quite complicated, and frankly doesn't
> gain much, as any character could conceivably go there. [If this is
> some sort of cgi submission, it shouldn't be using the rewriting
> shortcuts anyway.]
I guess, then, that it would at least be good to document the
{bug,pkg}report.cgi interfaces on http://bugs.debian.org/, as the only
way to know about the proper use of this at present is to read the
source code :)
Thanks!
Julian
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