[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

[Ahmad Samir]

On 22 December 2010 21:30, Renaud MICHEL <r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On mercredi 22 décembre 2010 at 18:46, Ahmad Samir wrote :
>> > Sorry for not beeing clear.
>> > What I propose is not for the case 'a bug originates from more than
>> > one package';
>> > but for the case 'a bug manifests itself in than one package'.
>>
>> A bug that manifests in more than one package must originate from
>> 'some package', that 'some package' is the only one that should be in
>> the 'RPM Package' field; i.e that's the package that's going to need
>> fixing.
>
> I agree, but that doesn't mean the user is able to identify the problematic
> package, even if he has good knowledge of the way packages work.
>
> Let's say for example that there is a problem with libxy, it is compiled
> with a bad combination of optimizations that make some of its functions
> behave randomly.
> appA appB and appC use libxy, but appC only use simple functions that are
> not affected by the optimization problem, so only appA and appB behave
> badly.
> Even if the user know about packages dependencies, as appC work fine he may
> not come to the conclusion that libxy is causing the problem.
> But he may still consider the problems with appA and appB to be related
> because they started at the same time (the latest update that included
> libxy).
> So if he can fill a single bug report for both appA and appB, that is a good
> hint to the developer that he should investigate in the dependencies those
> apps have in common.
>
> So if you accept only one package per bug report, it may be harder to find
> the actual cause, as those two apps may be maintained by different people,
> each investigating the problem for his own app.
>
> --
> Renaud Michel
>

Sure, but there's strace and gdb crash backtraces, that's what devs
use to find where a crash/bug happens, whether it's in their
package/code or somewhere else.

To be more clear it's "one bug per report", that bug originates from a
package, that's what gets to be put in the 'RPM Package' field; it's
not unheard of that the 'RPM Package' field is changed through out the
life cycle of a bug report.

-- 
Ahmad Samir