Cc: on dead packages

[Bastien Nocera]

Hey,

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?

Cheers

[Reindl Harald]

Am 30.06.2014 11:55, schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> Apparently, people can still file bugs for dead packages:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114180

xorg-x11-server is a dead package?
seriously?

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/30/2014 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 30.06.2014 11:55, schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > Apparently, people can still file bugs for dead packages:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114180
>
> xorg-x11-server is a dead package?
> seriously?

Look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_activity.cgi?id=1114180

It was originally filed against "synaptics", which has been dead since 
2009, so filing bugs doesn't even have to be enabled for supporting 
older releases.

[David Tardon]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:57:49AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 30.06.2014 11:55, schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > Apparently, people can still file bugs for dead packages:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114180
>
> xorg-x11-server is a dead package?
> seriously?

If you checked the bug's history, you would have noticed that it was
reported for synaptics.

D.

[Bill Nottingham]

Bastien Nocera ([e-mail]) 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:

- we only have one Fedora 'product' with components per-package
- you can't disable filing against components
- you can't *remove* components unless they have no bugs against them

If we made each Fedora release a separate product, we could then
tailor the list for each release. If explicitly moved all the bugs (even old
closed ones) away from old components, we could then delete them. But we
haven't done either of those things.

It may be possible to have the enter_bug.cgi page filter the allowable
components by the release version.

Bill

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/30/2014 07:20 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bastien Nocera ([e-mail]) 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:

<snip>
> 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