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

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:43:46PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hi Moritz
> 
> >> - 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 ;)
> >
> > The following matches should be safe:
> >
> > linux-doc-2.6*
> > linux-headers-2.6*
> > linux-image-2.6*
> > linux-libc-dev
> > linux-manual-2.6*
> > linux-patch-debian-2.6*
> > linux-source-2.6*
> > linux-support-2.6*
> > linux-tree-2.6*
> 
> Oh, only now I think of it: does all those bin packages come from
> linux-2.6 source package? if so, I think we can check if the source
> package is 'linux-2.6' and force to assign all bugs for its bin pkgs
> to it.
> 
> What do you think?

If that's possible, that is the best solution.

Thanks,
        Moritz