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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:04:58AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> 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.

If that happens for a case that is a pure rename of a package,
that doesn't sound correct.

> >> 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.

I did not have the information that song packages actually exist before 
you mentioned them.

> 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 am not at all interested in the game, but "QA cleanup" sounds better 
than "randomly acts on the BTS".

It seems in this case the bug/suggestion still applies to the version in 
unstable, so I don't have the feeling what I did was wrong.

I agree with you that doing only BTS changes is not necessarily helpful, 
but in addition to searching for bugs in suboptimal states I also sent 
patches to two RC bugs yesterday.

> Regards,
> 
> Markus

cu
Adrian

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