[Reportbug-maint] Bug#539176: Please special-case the kernel so that all bug reports are filed against the source package

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Moritz

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 17:45, Moritz Muehlenhoff<jmm at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.5
> Severity: wishlist
>
> The linux-2.6 source package is a bit special in comparison to other packages
> because the names of the binary packages change frequently (every 2-3 months with
> the release of a new kernel version). Currently, most bugs are reassigned
> manually to the linux-2.6 source package. It would be nice if all bugs filed
> against the kernel in reportbug were always directed towards the linux-2.6
> source package.

Of course we'd be more than happy to help you with this, but I got
some thoughts:

- wouldn't you lost the information about what kernel the bug is
about? It's true that in the Sys info below we got:

> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)

but that's the running kernel. What if a user want to report a bug
against another version of the kernel (for example that can't boot)
than the one running? How do you manage this?

- would you please be so kind to provide us the stricter regular
expression to match a binary kernel package? :) this way we can match
the current bin package name against the regex and do the voodoo magic
to force the report against linux-2.6 (yeah, this also means that if
you change the binary name structure, you should communicate us back
the new regexp). I could write myself, but I think that you would end
up with a much better one ;)

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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