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

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-05-31 06:38, Dave Steele wrote:
> Here's a strawman for a broken symlink mass bug filing, per request,
> for comments.

How many broken links are there in total?
Can you add a list of broken symlinks? Proposed format:

  package: /path/to/link -> /non/existing/target

> The initial bug reports will be based on this template:

Please add the Pseudo-Header paragraph, too (i.e. usertags etc). Do you
plan to use an additional usertag for these bugs?

>    A link to the log containing the indicated broken symlinks can
>    be found on piuparts.debian.org[3]. Search for

Also for the bugs being filed, please include the list of broken symlinks.

An important bug saying "Please go to that website. Look for your
package there. Read the logfile. See what the exact problem is." is not
really encouraging to the maintainer fixing this. Especially if the
logfile may disappear anytime due to another dependency failing.

Maybe already include one broken link (or a pattern) in the subject.

How do you want to handle source packages with several binary packages
having broken links?
I'd suggest filing only one bug:

Package: binary1,binary2,binary3
Version: 0.8-15

and list the broken links per binary package


Andreas