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reiserfsprogs or progsreiserfs? Reporting a cross-package bug
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| Enrico Zini 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| Hello,
At boot, the filesystem check complained that I don't have reiserfs
tools installed to perform a filesystem check, so I want to install one.
However, there are two: reiserfsprogs and progsreiserfs.
In their description, I see nothing that would help me in making the
choice: one uses a library, the other doesn't. But are they updated at
the same time? Are they really, really the same thing, just one uses a
library? And why the other one doesn't use the library?
So, I'd like to report a bug against both packages, which is not
directly possible. Question now is: should I report the same bug for
both packages and then merge the two bugs, or report the bug to one
package and then Cc the maintainer of the other one, or... what is the
best way to handle this?
Ciao,
Enrico
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| Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
[...]
> So, I'd like to report a bug against both packages, which is not
> directly possible. Question now is: should I report the same bug for
> both packages and then merge the two bugs, or report the bug to one
> package and then Cc the maintainer of the other one, or... what is the
> best way to handle this?
You cannot merge bugs in different packages. An option could be cloning
the bug you submit to one of the packages.
But of course, having in sync both bugs, if that's what you want can be
a bit more complicated.
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| Frank Lichtenheld 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> So, I'd like to report a bug against both packages, which is not
> directly possible. Question now is: should I report the same bug for
> both packages and then merge the two bugs, or report the bug to one
> package and then Cc the maintainer of the other one, or... what is the
> best way to handle this?
File a bug with
Package: progreiserfs, reiserfsprogs
This actually works for some time now (the BTS web interface had some
problems with it, though, don't checked if these are fixed)
Gruesse,
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| Wouter Verhelst 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At boot, the filesystem check complained that I don't have reiserfs
> tools installed to perform a filesystem check, so I want to install one.
> However, there are two: reiserfsprogs and progsreiserfs.
>
> In their description, I see nothing that would help me in making the
> choice: one uses a library, the other doesn't. But are they updated at
> the same time? Are they really, really the same thing, just one uses a
> library?
No.
Reiserfsprogs is the "official" implementation, created by namesys.
Progsreiserfs is an alternate implementation. It does the same thing;
which you use depends on your preference.
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| Christian Surchi 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| Il dom, 2004-09-26 alle 14:26, Wouter Verhelst ha scritto:
> Reiserfsprogs is the "official" implementation, created by namesys.
> Progsreiserfs is an alternate implementation. It does the same thing;
> which you use depends on your preference.
Political preference, then? ;-)
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| Felipe Almeida Lessa 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| Em Dom, 2004-09-26 Ã_s 14:26 +0200, Wouter Verhelst escreveu:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
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> No.
>
> Reiserfsprogs is the "official" implementation, created by namesys.
> Progsreiserfs is an alternate implementation. It does the same thing;
> which you use depends on your preference.
As a user, I don't have any idea of difference between the official and
the alternate implementation. And, mainly, *why* there is an alternate
implementation? Is there something buggy in the official? Is the
alternate faster? If both do the same thing, why both exist? There's no
logic in that and I doubt someone outside ReiserFS sphere could select
the best choice (btw, have I done a good choice -- I'm using reiser!)
Cheers,
Felipe Almeida Lessa.
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| Steinar H. Gunderson 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> So, I'd like to report a bug against both packages, which is not
> directly possible.
Yes, you can assign a bug to "reiserfsprogs,progsreiserfs". It tends to break
britney, though.
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| William Ballard 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 08:51:53PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Yes, you can assign a bug to "reiserfsprogs,progsreiserfs". It tends to break
> britney, though.
Okay, I learned via googling that Britney is the name of the testing
scripts. Why's it called britney?
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| Wouter Verhelst 2004-09-26, 5:55 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 05:42:54PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 08:51:53PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
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> Okay, I learned via googling that Britney is the name of the testing
> scripts. Why's it called britney?
http://cvs.debian.org/dak/docs/READ....viewcvs-markup
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| Steve Langasek 2004-09-26, 8:56 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 02:26:40PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Reiserfsprogs is the "official" implementation, created by namesys.
> Progsreiserfs is an alternate implementation. It does the same thing;
> which you use depends on your preference.
It also depends on which suite you're using. Progsreiserfs didn't ship
with woody, and has now been removed from testing due to a long
outstanding RC bug.
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| William Ballard 2004-09-27, 2:49 am |
| On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:51:12PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> ROTFL.
> I didn't realise there were so many...
> Can any developer commit? I'd like to add Demi
You're about eight years too late.
I'd like to add Madonna, 12 years ago, when she was all cut.
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| Colin Watson 2004-09-27, 5:56 pm |
| On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 08:51:53PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
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> Yes, you can assign a bug to "reiserfsprogs,progsreiserfs". It tends
> to break britney, though.
It definitely shouldn't break britney as of the new implementation of
the RC-bug-checking piece of the puzzle a couple of weeks ago. Even the
old implementation should have worked fine, though:
foreach $p (split /[,\s]+/, $s_package) {
$impbugs{$p}++;
last;
}
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| Colin Watson 2004-09-27, 5:56 pm |
| On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:51:12PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:49:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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> ROTFL.
> I didn't realise there were so many...
> Can any developer commit? I'd like to add Demi
> (http://demi.alioth.debian.org/)
I really do hope that any developer cannot commit to our archive
maintenance scripts. :-)
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| Jeroen van Wolffelaar 2004-09-27, 5:56 pm |
| On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> It definitely shouldn't break britney as of the new implementation of
> the RC-bug-checking piece of the puzzle a couple of weeks ago. Even the
> old implementation should have worked fine, though:
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> foreach $p (split /[,\s]+/, $s_package) {
> $impbugs{$p}++;
> last;
Shouldn't that be s/last/next/ (or rather, that line deleted)? The
current way, only the first package the bug is assigned to will have an
increased RC count, potentially letting RC buggy packages into testing.
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| Colin Watson 2004-09-27, 5:56 pm |
| On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:40:16PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
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> Shouldn't that be s/last/next/ (or rather, that line deleted)?
Ah, right, I see the problem now. Yes, in that case multi-package bugs
would have been handled wrongly until a couple of weeks ago.
> The current way, only the first package the bug is assigned to will
> have an increased RC count, potentially letting RC buggy packages into
> testing.
That's not the current implementation, of course.
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