closing bugs is not hiding problems (Re: Debian does not have customers)

2016-09-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 03:13:32PM +0200, Xen wrote: > >A closed bug is presumptively a fixed bug (because bugs which have been > >fixed get closed). > > > >An open bug is presumptively a non-fixed bug. > > > >Therefore, to close a bug which has not been fixed is to pretend that > >the problem repo

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-08-20 09:07 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 18/08/16 10:48, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> I received a notification that a bug was closed. >>> >>> The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the >>> address (bug-numb

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/08/16 10:48, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I received a notification that a bug was closed. >> >> The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the >> address (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org > [...] >> Maybe time to star

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Daniel Pocock dijo [Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:38:35PM +0200]: > I was only talking about control emails (e.g. the -done address and > control@). The requirements for opening bugs or submitting comments > (without pseudo-headers) could remain as they are. > > Maybe it could insist that emails from a

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-08-18 16:13:29 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > Am 18.08.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > Reject mail with "X-PHP-Originating-Script:", at least for -done? > > I quite often see this in spam not caught by the filters, and I > > suppose that PHP scripts do not send mail to the BT

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 18.08.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > Reject mail with "X-PHP-Originating-Script:", at least for -done? > I quite often see this in spam not caught by the filters, and I > suppose that PHP scripts do not send mail to the BTS; well, this > should be easy to see with the archives. Then y

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-08-17 14:47:24 -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > All of that said, we certainly do appreciate better anti-spam SA rules > for the BTS, and we do already give negative scores for messages which > have things which look like PGP signatures and/or come from an address > which is in the whitelist.

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I received a notification that a bug was closed. > > The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the address > (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org [...] > Maybe time to start requiring PGP signatures on control emails to t

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Daniel Pocock writes: > I was only talking about control emails (e.g. the -done address and > control@). The requirements for opening bugs or submitting comments > (without pseudo-headers) could remain as they are. I don't believe the spammer intended to close the bug. The bug had already been

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I received a notification that a bug was closed. > > The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the address > (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737921 > > Maybe time to start requir

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 17/08/16 18:34, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > Hello, > > Le 17/08/2016 à 18:14, Daniel Pocock a écrit : >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737921 >> >> Maybe time to start requiring PGP signatures on control emails to >> the BTS? > > Requiring signature will increase the level

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 17/08/16 18:29, gustavo panizzo wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> >> I received a notification that a bug was closed. >> >> The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the >> address (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org >> >> >> https:/

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread Stéphane Blondon
Hello, Le 17/08/2016 à 18:14, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737921 > > Maybe time to start requiring PGP signatures on control emails to the BTS? Requiring signature will increase the level to send bugs to the BTS for external people. And spammers co

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread gustavo panizzo
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > I received a notification that a bug was closed. > > The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the address > (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737921 It w

spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
I received a notification that a bug was closed. The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the address (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737921 Maybe time to start requiring PGP signatures on control emails to the BTS?

Re: closing bugs against stable versions when a package is RMd from sid

2016-05-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Dear gregor (and others off-list), On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:17:36PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > The BTS is version-aware and knows/displays that the bug still > affects the version in stable. I am aware that the BTS is version-aware, but where I have got confused is I was assuming that mail

Re: closing bugs against stable versions when a package is RMd from sid

2016-04-29 Thread gregor herrmann
ll affects the version in stable. (Closing bugs for removed packaged [with a higher version than what's in unstable] is basically the same as closing a bug by an upload to unstable which also doesn't fix the same bug in stable.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://

closing bugs against stable versions when a package is RMd from sid

2016-04-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
OpenJDK 7 just got removed from the archive (#820703) and as is normal for such situations all its open bugs got closed. I happened to notice because I reported one of them (#780665). However, I reported the bug against the version in Jessie, which still exists, and is still the only version of it

Re: Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 04:54:54PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> assume a binary package A has been built from source package X, but a >> new upload of source packages X and Y moves it, and it is now built from >> Y. Now, will the changes file of Y properly

Re: Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Frank Küster wrote: > assume a binary package A has been built from source package X, but > a new upload of source packages X and Y moves it, and it is now > built from Y. Now, will the changes file of Y properly close the bug > in A? In other words, will the BTS be aware of th

Re: Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 04:54:54PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > assume a binary package A has been built from source package X, but a > new upload of source packages X and Y moves it, and it is now built from > Y. Now, will the changes file of Y properly close the bug in A? In > other wo

Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, assume a binary package A has been built from source package X, but a new upload of source packages X and Y moves it, and it is now built from Y. Now, will the changes file of Y properly close the bug in A? In other words, will the BTS be aware of the change in source package before the chan

closing bugs for packages no longer in unstable (was: Bug#500607: Debian APT Packages/Sources file(s) contains illegal byte sequences in this package's segment)

2008-10-19 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed that tetex-src is only in sarge and etch, hence we > can't remove it from unstable. As we (probably) can't fix it in > stable and it is be fixed in unstable, we have to close the bug, > right? I'm not sure, because we have now versio

Closing bugs due to removed code (was Re: Re: c2a transition: libraries still needing transition)

2005-12-22 Thread Filipus Klutiero
BTW: there are in bts some translations of fuse's debconf templates... may I close these bugs with the upload which will remove templates at all or should I close them manually with explanation that there won't be any questions since now? As you want. See for example http://packages.qa.debi

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-13 Thread Frank Küster
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> > > AFAIK apt-listbugs only displays open bugs, if the bug is closed >> > > then it won't get displayed. >> > >> > It will be displayed even when it's closed. It does have some >> > heuristics to avoid showing irrelevant bugs. >> > >> > >>

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > > AFAIK apt-listbugs only displays open bugs, if the bug is closed > > > then it won't get displayed. > > > > It will be displayed even when it's closed. It does have some > > heuristics to avoid showing irrelevant bugs. > > > > > > > Ideally apt-listbugs needs to be updated to suppor

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:43:26AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > >> Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know > > >> it can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where > > >> no open critical bug was seen. After Boot the syste

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > >> Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it > >> can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no > >> open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was > >> completely broken as of the libpcre dependency. > >> > >> So please do

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
> "Junichi" == Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Junichi> Hi, >> Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it >> can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no >> open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was >> completely b

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
> So please do not close bugs bevore it is available on servers. This > break of the system musn't be. [...] Hello, This is (currently) standard practice and usually[1] there is no manual maintainer action involved. 1. Package uploaded 2. archive software processes the package, including 2

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be > unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug > was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre > dependency. > > So please do not close bugs bevore it is available on

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be > unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug > was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre > dependency. > > So please do not c

Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-10 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre dependency. So please do not close b

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:16:01AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > If I understand correctly, after version tracking was implemented, the > fixed-in-experimental tag has been superseded by simply closing the > bug for the current experimental version (i.e. mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a pseudo-

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Now I'd like to save the maintainer some work and tag the bug > fixed-in-experimental myself (together with a short explanatory > message to the bug log), If I understand correctly, after version tracking was implemented, the fixed-in-experimental

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Yes, you may do so -- if in doubt, simply write an explanatory mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], and let the maintainer deal with it. If you're sure > that what you're doing is correct, there is in general no reason to not do it. >

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to ask you if it is desired (and possible at all) > that submitters close their own bugs if they have been fixed > without the package maintainer's noticing. The informational > pages on b.d.o don't state whether [EMAIL PROTECTED] is obeying

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jan C. Nordholz said: > Dear list, > > I'd like to ask you if it is desired (and possible at all) > that submitters close their own bugs if they have been fixed > without the package maintainer's noticing. The informational > pages on b.d.o don't state whether [EMAIL P

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:09:06AM +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Dear list, > > I'd like to ask you if it is desired (and possible at all) > that submitters close their own bugs if they have been fixed > without the package maintainer's noticing. The informational > pages on b.d.o don't state wh

Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Dear list, I'd like to ask you if it is desired (and possible at all) that submitters close their own bugs if they have been fixed without the package maintainer's noticing. The informational pages on b.d.o don't state whether [EMAIL PROTECTED] is obeying commands from everyone, and whether or not

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:25:08AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > Moreover I wonder if when closing via mail should I write in > > Changelog sth like: this upload fixes bug number 1234567 in > > testing and unstable which has been closed via mail, and add tag > > sarge to bug that remain opened

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steinar H. Gunderson [Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:03:03 +0200]: > BTW, does the BTS understand that the package might "fork"? Specifically, if > I have a bug in a sarge package (say, 1.0) that is fixed in an upstream > version 1.2, but is backported to sarge (because it's an RC bug), can I say > that it

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:49:19AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> AFAICT there is no support for a "done" command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I meant "close": > > close 99 1.2 BTW, does the BTS understand that the package might "fork"? Specifically, if I have a bug in a sarge package (say,

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >In recent announce about changes in BTS (Subject: BTS version tracking >Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:29 +0100) is described how to use new >versioning system. I'm not sure if sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is >now prefered way to closing

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.25.0038 +0200]: > > done 99 1.2 > > AFAICT there is no support for a "done" command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I meant "close": close 99 1.2 -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Grzegorz Bizon
Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:25:08 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In recent announce about changes in BTS (Subject: BTS version > > tracking Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:29 +0100) is described how to > > use new versioning system. I'm not sure if sending mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 25 August 2005 00:25, martin f krafft wrote: > done 99 1.2 AFAICT there is no support for a "done" command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgps430gVp78z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Qua, 2005-08-24 às 23:59 +0200, Grzegorz Bizon escreveu: > In recent announce about changes in BTS (Subject: BTS version tracking > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:29 +0100) is described how to use new > versioning system. I'm not sure if sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > now prefered way to c

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Grzegorz Bizon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.24.2359 +0200]: > Maintainer uploads fixed package into unstable and closes bug in > Changelog, after few days corrected package enters testing, depending on > urgency. Granted that reported bug wasn't so important to justify > upload do stab

Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Grzegorz Bizon
Hi there ! I was just wondering about few issues in BTS after recent changes - how to close bugs in apropriate way. Maintainer uploads fixed package into unstable and closes bug in Changelog, after few days corrected package enters testing, depending on urgency. Granted that reported bug wasn't

Re: Closing bugs tagged "woody"

2005-06-07 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Now that sarge is out (BTW, congrats to everybody!), can I close bug > reports tagged "woody" ? I think that you should close those reports if and only if corresponding bugs are fixed in sarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Closing bugs tagged "woody"

2005-06-07 Thread Alban Browaeys
Le Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:51:03 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:14:12PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: >> Now that sarge is out (BTW, congrats to everybody!), can I close bug >> reports tagged "woody" ? > > Depends. Certainly not security related bugs. For others it

Re: Closing bugs tagged "woody"

2005-06-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:14:12PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Now that sarge is out (BTW, congrats to everybody!), can I close bug > reports tagged "woody" ? Depends. Certainly not security related bugs. For others it might be usefull to keep them around to perhaps prevent others from repo

Closing bugs tagged "woody"

2005-06-07 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Now that sarge is out (BTW, congrats to everybody!), can I close bug reports tagged "woody" ? Cheers, -- Rafael [Please, Cc: replies to me.] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Maintainers needing help closing bugs

2001-09-14 Thread Chris Tillman
I've been perusing the bug catalogs, and I thought it might be useful for others who want to help closing bugs, to see which maintainers need the most help. Here's a list of the oldest bugs (also see the list of bugs more than 2 years old at master.debian.org/~ajt/oldbugs.html). Followi

Re: Closing bugs

1998-10-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On 14 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both > or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the > submittors? The documentation for the bug system says: [...] When reports are merged opening, closing, marking or unmark

Re: Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both > or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the > submittors? You need to close both, imho. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the submittors? -- The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to it's feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds) [EMAIL PROTEC