Cc: on dead packages

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/30/2014 07:20 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bastien Nocera (bnocera at redhat.com) said: 
>> Apparently, people can still file bugs for dead packages:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114180
>>
>> And I (and many others) get CC:ed on those bugs files, with
>> no possibility to remove ourselves from the CC: in pkgdb.
>>
>> Any idea where I should be filing a bug for this bug?
> 
> It's a combination of:
> 

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> - you can't disable filing against components

I don't think that's true, a bugzilla component can be disabled for filing new
bug reports, but it is not fully removed, so old bugs can still be referenced
with the correct component. I previously filed a request against pkgdb2 asking
them to handle this step for retired components:

https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/59

- Cole