[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#837268: bzr: FTBFS: Tests failures

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:53:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/09/16 at 12:33 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > Tags: stretch sid
> > 
> > This bug should not happen in stretch (yet) because diffutils 3.5
> > has not entered stretch (yet), are you sure it's correct to tag
> > it stretch in those cases?
> 
> What 'stretch sid' really means is "this doesn't affect stable". There's
> no better way to express that.

Ah, ok.

> Even if the bug is tagged "stretch sid", normal BTS version-tracking is
> still applied, so if the affected version isn't in stretch, it won't
> be seen as affecting stretch.

That's precisely the little problem I wanted to point out:

The "affected" version (bzr 2.7.0+bzr6619-1) was both in stretch and sid,
but the bug could not be reproduced in stretch because diffutils 3.5
(the package triggering this bug) was not in stretch yet.

How would I ask the BTS if this was a bug in stretch?

Assuming for a while that diffutils 3.5 did not enter testing yet,
would the BTS give the correct answer?

I agree that this is a minor issue, I just wanted to know if this is
something which has been raised before or not, and how it would be
solved.

For the purposes of excluding "stable", using "stretch sid" makes
every sense, of course.

Thanks.