[Apt-listbugs-commits] [apt-listbugs] 03/04: add further considerations about "affects"

[Francesco Poli]

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commit 7f1240aaa11baedcfe546b4651725c1ef09925a8
Author: Francesco Poli (wintermute) <invernomuto at paranoici.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 2 19:15:41 2014 +0100

    add further considerations about "affects"
---
 debian/README.Debian | 8 +++++++-
 debian/changelog     | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 29130e6..1f3d9ca 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -203,11 +203,17 @@ ignores the "affects" field in any case.
 
 There's a way to work around the lack of version tracking info
 for the "affects" field: whenever you find yourself in scenario 1,
-file a dummy bug report against package A, marking it as found in
+file a separate bug report against package A, marking it as found in
 version a1 and as blocked by the actual bug report (the one assigned
 to package B). Please choose a descriptive bug report title, citing
 the interaction with package B, in order to let users quickly see
 whether they should worry about the issue.
+The bug report against package A could request the addition of an
+appropriate "Breaks: B (<< b2)" field to the control file.
+Please note that b2 is the version where the actual bug in package B
+is fixed, hence the bug report against A cannot be closed until the
+bug in B is fixed: this is correctly expressed by the block relationship
+between the two bug reports.
 Anyway, please take into account that this strategy is sub-optimal
 and may annoy some package maintainers!
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b22ed81..723dbb5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ apt-listbugs (0.1.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * improved README.Debian formatting
   * documented how to temporarily disable the invocation of apt-listbugs
     in README.Debian
+  * added some further considerations to the section about the "affects"
+    field in README.Debian
 
  -- Francesco Poli (wintermute) <invernomuto at paranoici.org>  Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:43:19 +0100
 

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