[bts-link] source package gnucash

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian.org> writes:

> it's not broken, you have the one you forwarded your bug to, and the one 
> upstream has merged it into. the BTS does not interpret it in every 
> place correctly, that's not *my* fault. If you look at the bug report 
> page, when shows the commands I've sent to the BTS, you'll see the 
> URI's are good there.

Take a look at the *top* of the page now, and see what happens.

You have extended the syntax of the BTS in a way not supported by the
BTS, and you shouldn't do that until it's set.

> I've prepared a patch for the BTS one week ago so that it can hilight 
> those correctly on the summary pages and various other places as well. 
> please ask the bugs.d.o crew to apply the patch, and those URI's will 
> be magically usable, and usefull. I'll try to contact aj or Kamion to 
> see what they can do about it, if this cannot be pushed a little. If 
> the BTS hilights those URI's correctly, would you be OK with it ?

I want to be able to clicky on the link at the top of the page.

You should NOT have implemented this in this way until *AFTER* the
patch was in place in the BTS.

Indeed, I think simply changing the forwarding pointer outright to the
new bug is superior to changing the BTS syntax.  It's not as if the
old pointer is lost.

>   http://bugs.debian.org/367813
>
> but please, don't shoot the messenger, a *lot* of people have asked for 
> bts-link to behave that way, and it *IS* reasonnable.

> the goal here is that I never loose the first forward ever, but that if 
> the submitter wants to know what upstream did with his but, it's only 
> one click away. sadly, for reasons already in that mail, the 'one click 
> away' thing is broken because of the BTS, not me.

It's not the BTS' fault that it didn't anticipate your change to the
syntax.  It's your fault that you went and changed the syntax before
the BTS was ready.

Thomas