reassign 657945 debbugs severity 657945 minor tag 657945 wontfix thanks On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The following SOAP request will happily return an empty array even > though "non-existent-package" doesn't exist in the bts. This makes > it impossible to differentiate a package with no bugs vs. a > non-existent package. Ideally, this type of request should return a > fault that could be appropriately handled for non-existent packages.
A package's existence or not is orthogonal to whether bugs are filed against it. The BTS allows bugs to be filed against non-existent packages; the only way to figure out if a package currently exists is to check whether or not a package has a maintainer. If it does, it's a package. If it doesn't, it isn't currently, or may never have been. Don Armstrong -- Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will be fleeing to SLACKWARE. And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE? -- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy> http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
