On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:14:48PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > It seems that nmudiff doesn't recognize if you close mutliple bug
> > reports in one NMU. Instead of doing his usual "send patch to every bug
> > report and add patch tag" it then falls back to reporting a new bug.
>
> It does recognise it. It used to always open a new bug report, though
> there was kind of consensus to change it to not open a new bug report if
> only one bug was fixed in the NMU.
>
> I would be happy to have it changed though I guess we need some
> discussion within and outside the team before doing that...
I can't understand the meaning of the current default: it mails the bug
log only if one bug is being closed, not if more than one are. What's
the rationale?
If I put myself in the role of the NMU received, I would always prefer
receiving a single mail with a unified patch delivered to multiple bug
logs, than receiving a new bug log which will need to be triaged (if I
got the NMU, I'm probably overworked and that would not help).
The role of bug submitter is not any better IMO: all people subscribed
to the affected bug logs will not receive the patch that, even if in an
aggregated way, fixes their problem. The will not notice that until
someone will triage the new bug log and reassign / split it
appropriately to the relevant bug logs (most likely, that will never
happen).
Also, as the NMU uploader, you will probably learn the existence of the
--old option the first time you use nmudiff on something which closes
more than one bug and (happened to me) only after having passed through
*this* wishlist bug against nmudiff :-)
I believe all the above is an accurate list of the cons of the current
default. What are its *pros*? If there are none, the default can
probably be adapted right away.
Cheers.
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