Bug#425898: Processed: ultrastar-ng is now performous

[Markus Koschany]

Control: retitle -1 performous: Suggest free songs

On 10.10.2016 23:35, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:10:56PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
>> On 10.10.2016 22:57, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>>> Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
>>>
>>>> reassign 425898 performous
>>> Bug #425898 [ultrastar-ng] ultrastar-ng: please provide some demo songs !
>>> Warning: Unknown package 'ultrastar-ng'
>>> Bug reassigned from package 'ultrastar-ng' to 'performous'.
>>> No longer marked as found in versions ultrastar-ng/0.1.4-2 and ultrastar-ng/0.1.4-1.
>>> Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #425898 to the same values previously set
>>>> thanks
>>> Stopping processing here.
>>>
>>> Please contact me if you need assistance.
>>
>> Why do you reassign bugs from packages that have been removed from
>> Debian a long time ago?
> 
> The package was renamed, not removed.
> 
> This made reassigning sound more appropriate than blindly closing.

Usually the old package gets removed from Debian and all bug reports are
automatically closed. It is then the responsibility of the maintainer to
reassign the bugs that still apply to the new package. So renaming of a
package also involves removal of an old and introduction of a new package.

>> This issue is already resolved because fretsonfire-songs-muldjord and
>> fretsonfire-songs-sectoid are automatically detected by performous. See
>> also /usr/share/doc/performous/README.Debian that lists all directories
>> in which songs are searched for.
> 
> It might not matter much when Lucas is the submitter, but in general
> it is better when this bug gets closed with "already fixed" than a
> not completely correct "package was removed".
> 
> 
> The reason why I didn't close the bug this way myself actually seems to 
> be a bug in the package:
> 
> performous does not have any relationship (Depends/Recommends/Suggests)
> on these song packages you mention.
> 
> This was the reason why I didn't find them when checking quickly whether 
> the bug was clearly already fixed.
> 
> I'd guess users would also appreciate at least a Suggests of them.

Ok this is certainly doable. However in my opinion you should state this
information in your initial e-mail when you reassign the bug report. It
even makes more sense to file a new bug report against performous in the
first place because the ultrastar-ng package has been removed from
Debian a really long time ago. This would demonstrate that you are
actually interested in the game itself and not just someone who randomly
acts on the BTS.

I think suggesting the songs from fretsonfire would be appropriate in
this case because I can't really say for sure that these songs "would be
found together with this [package] in all but unusual installations". I
have retitled the bug report accordingly.

> cu
> Adrian

Regards,

Markus



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