[Piuparts-devel] Pending mass bug filing for broken symlinks detected by piuparts

[Dave Steele]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> Please post to piuparts-devel or put it one some webpage.
> I'd like to see three copies:
> * sorted by path
> * sorted by source package
> * sorted by binary package
>

Ok. Might take a bit. My source package list is currently boogered.

>>> Maybe already include one broken link (or a pattern) in the subject.
>>
>> Not recommended. They tend to be long.
>
> 350 bugs with all the same subject looks really boring - there is no
> individualism
> I wouldn't care about length that much if we can increase information
> density
> take a look at the piuparts bug history [1]
>

Adding the package name is no big deal. I'd have to know more about
length restrictions before using the symlink path.

> and I'd recommend using an *additional* usertag for these bugs, e.g.
> "broken-symlinks" - it doesn't cost anything, but it will allow easy
> filtering later on
>

Ok

>
> The dd-list is source package based, you can't derive anything about
> binary packages from this.
>

I don't understand.