From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Handling bugs in obsolete code Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:03:41 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20081129.145347.35808910.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20081129.155222.124907962.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20081129.161126.71259916.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <5vy4c46ifr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83oacz5188.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4c32wwf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452146646 25302 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 06:04:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , hanche@math.ntnu.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 07:03:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aH3fw-0005Xj-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 07:03:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH3fu-0000dJ-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH3fq-0000cM-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH3fp-0002LN-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22b]:33734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH3fm-0002Kp-48; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id cy9so250228341pac.0; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:03:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=3MQUcZ1fH3hLnc65r7jlhksWv9DrAQuI+MDUnAbq1Jc=; b=ccHr7sVMpjBJug4RvWm9DYBPGc+7+/tU/kq+kc2vHcPw7kuZ/F259R5ZVidJZkhBS0 YVjVo2tzn8w3Hot8D4ExUMQw2llLmf6XdKRBN5cHcD4yP/fRlrU4PMAT7U2xjdNMpWkf /FwK0Jm/2jV7ChKFSFfyxapnwmn9mb5+weUy/Kshae69M/Y+V2rd76A/iifj5TQCMb7N A6txT1efTX9llZaiTAHlzcpl10d/nTzTzmHdGu6keW9ln7AkgXzyeXElSvQ3JW12yE1M FFGzIEYRcItK3ESWunIWMCrkxPk6l1KuagA2r8dMc0T5yRpjBedmv9fSvqXPhScRegWB a5Rw== X-Received: by 10.66.218.225 with SMTP id pj1mr144346215pac.40.1452146625609; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:03:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Vulcan.local (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id qj8sm7234519pac.40.2016.01.06.22.03.44 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:03:44 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id E3F1612212B5E; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:03:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Andrew Hyatt's message of "Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:27:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Hyatt , Eli Zaretskii , rgm@gnu.org, hanche@math.ntnu.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22b X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197726 Archived-At: >>>>> Andrew Hyatt writes: > That would help, although it would still mean that new bugs would have to be > triaged and tagged as obsolete, as opposed to not existing at all. If we did > such a thing, it'd be nice if debbugs filtered obsolete tags by default. If minor is currently be filtered, it should be possible to filter obsolete as well. > Another variant on that is to say that all bugs against obsolete packages > have "minor" severity, which would accomplish the same thing without needing > a new tag. On the hopefully rare occasions in which the bug really is severe > (crashes emacs, corrupts data, etc) it can be have a non-minor severity. The advantage to having obsolete is that it would make it easier to find the bugs we need to close whenever obsolete code is being deleted. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2