[Reportbug-maint] Bug#544812: Specific to querying the source package

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: found -1 6.6.6

On 2011-01-05 01:04:08 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Indeed, I think we can postpone this until SOAP in reportbug will be
> reality, that means some day...

If I understand correctly, reportbug uses SOAP now:

reportbug (6.0) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
  * Use SOAP to retrive bugs information from Debian BTS; Closes: #415801
[...]
 -- Sandro Tosi   Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:33:11 +0200

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[Reportbug-maint] Bug#544812: Specific to querying the source package

[Sandro Tosi]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 21:45, James Vega james...@debian.org wrote:
 The long-term goal of
 switching to SOAP would likely make this trivial.

Indeed, I think we can postpone this until SOAP in reportbug will be
reality, that means some day...

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[Reportbug-maint] Bug#544812: Specific to querying the source package

[James Vega]

user report...@packages.debian.org
usertag 544812 querybts
thanks

In doing a little more poking around, I see this is only an issue when
using querybts on a source package.  This may simply be an artifact of
screen-scraping the BTS, but I'd have to do some tests with the BTS'
SOAP interface to verify that.

It does make sense that the source-based view wouldn't show it since
affects is usually used against a binary package.  The downside to the
default source-based view that querybts (used via reportbug) is that the
user likely misses the bugs affecting the package against which the bug
is being filed.

One potential solution is to specifically query the binary package bug
pages for the affects bugs, but that's a potential drastic increase in
traffic to the BTS per reportbug invocation.  The long-term goal of
switching to SOAP would likely make this trivial.



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