Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 13:47:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Before replying to a post, please read *ENTIRE* post. Even, or especially, > what you snip. The post I replied to has two queries, which are not related. The portion snipped was the second question. It might have passed you by that I

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 13:47:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2017 12:28 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 11:01:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>On 06/01/2017 09:30 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > >>>On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can't find a way to

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2017 12:28 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 11:01:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/01/2017 09:30 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't find a way to retrieve project bugs in order of date originally filed. reportbug-ng can sort by

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > I want a simple list, one line per bug, of open bugs for a project: > [bug #] [date submitted] [bug title] bts select pkg:tomboy|sort|bts status file:- \ fields:bug_num,date,subject The rest of the formatting is an exercise for the reader. Or rather

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 11:01:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2017 09:30 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > >On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>I can't find a way to retrieve project bugs in order of date originally > >>filed. > >> reportbug-ng can sort by "last activity" but not

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 11:01:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2017 09:30 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > >On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>A second question concerns the progress of a package from experimental to > >>stable. > >> > >>A case in point - Tomboy 1.15.8 has just

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/01/2017 09:30 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't find a way to retrieve project bugs in order of date originally filed. reportbug-ng can sort by "last activity" but not "date opened". *INCORRECT* I was mislead by combination of visual problems

Re: Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can't find a way to retrieve project bugs in order of date originally > filed. > reportbug-ng can sort by "last activity" but not "date opened". > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ can report by "classification" > but not "date opened". The bug

Becoming familiar with Debian's BTS

2017-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
It has been suggested that I could be useful by testing older bugs to see if they could be closed -- i.e. a fix for another problem or a general upgrade has fixed the problem. I can't find a way to retrieve project bugs in order of date originally filed. reportbug-ng can sort by "last