On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 08:13, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > But it's probably serious because it doesn't work on a large set of > packages provided by Debian...
but arguably on a small set of machine (those with m-a enabled). I'm not exactly interested in playing severity ping-pong, so feel free to raise it if you feel it's important; what would be more helping is support in fixing the problems. > i.e. it must be fixed before release and it will, no matter the severity > and the sooner the better. you know, we're always welcoming patches, or a clear description of what should be improved, even better how (just pointing out what's wrong doesn't always define a plan to fix it), ssssso let me ask you some questions, see below :) > But the interface involves passing a package name. And the package > name must be arch qualified when the package is Multi-Arch: same. > > It can be argued that the mistake is made by the user... but > it would be wise for reportbug to detect it and let the user > choose the right variant ASAP. Ok, how do you propose to do it? i.e. what if the user insert <pkg> while it actually wants <pkg>:<a1> while he has <pkg>:<a1>, <pkg>:<a2> and <pkg>:<a3> installed? what's the correct what to translate <pkg> into the list <pkg>:<a1>, <pkg>:<a2> and <pkg>:<a3> (or in the simple case, <pkg>:<a1>)? some dpkg querying function (<pkg>:* ? anything better?) ? > In all cases, the architecture qualifier > must be stripped before being sent to the BTS. I'd say: keep the arch qualify until the end, and strip it just before preparing the template for editing, correct? > reportbug also breaks when you call it with a file owned by a multi-arch: same > package. > > ------ > $ reportbug /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > Finding package for '/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6'... > Using package 'libc6'. the problem is in: # dpkg --search /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 libc6:i386: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 where splitting on ':' used to work fine, while now it's not enough anymore (it will have to be ': ' at least) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
