On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:03:48PM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: > It seems that I need some clarification regarding source package bug > pages. > > linux-2.6 is a source package producing many binary packages; > linux-image, linux-headers, linux-doc, linux-manual, etc: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/linux-2.6 > http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.html > > The package page for a 'linux-2.6' binary package doesn't exist: > > http://packages.debian.org/linux-2.6 > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=0&exact=1&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=linux-2.6&searchon=names > > But a package page for the 'linux-2.6' source package does exist: > > http://packages.debian.org/src:linux-2.6 > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=sourcenames&version=all&exact=1&keywords=linux-2.6 > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=0&exact=1&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=linux-2.6&searchon=sourcenames > > The bug page for this source package is: > > http://bugs.debian.org/src:linux-2.6 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux-2.6 > > and lists my recently-closed bug #102724. > > Then what, I wonder, is this page? > > http://bugs.debian.org/linux-2.6 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=linux-2.6 > > Perhaps it is the source package page, but before the BTS gets updated > with a recent list of binary packages it produces? That is my best > guess so far. > > By the way, is it valid to file a bug on a source package, if no > binary package exists by the same name? (For example, Package: > linux-2.6). > > Is there a way of filing a bug against the source package > specifically, if a binary package name is the same? (As it is for > many packages, especially 'single-binary' ones, for example my > packages saods9 and sextractor). This would be useful to me as a way > of marking a bug as "Debian-specific", and, I'm just extra curious > today. Alternately, is the definition of a source package's bugs just the bugs filed against binary packages produced by that source package?
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