[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op woensdag 22 december 2010 23:25:16 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
> Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 22:58:44, andre999 a écrit :
> > Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> > > Op woensdag 22 december 2010 20:38:06 schreef 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'.
> > 
> > If we agree that a bug can originate in more than one package, a
> > multiline (multi-rpm) field could be useful.
> 
> No need for a multiline field. If we agree that the field, by convention,
> can contain one rpm name (common case) or more, separated by commas for
> example, then it wont add complexity over the initial proposal from Ahmad
> and would still allow people to flag more RPMs if they want.
> 
> From the bug solving point of view, this would not add much benefit, but
> for users it may bring some useful information, for example in
> mageia-app-db. Indeed, like it was said earlier, if the problem shows in
> package A but is in fact a bug in package B, it's still useful to have
> package A mentioned so that we can say, on the package's page in
> mageia-app-db "Hey, there's a known open bug for this package".
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Samuel Verschelde


good compromise