Comment 2 for bug 31367
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| Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote Re: [Bug 31367] Specifying a non-published binary package when filing a bug causes an oops | #2 |
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:32:43AM -0000, James Henstridge wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https:/
>
> Comment:
> One thing that is apparent from this bug's duplicates is that people are
> trying to file bugs against names provided by a binary package (e.g.
> filing a bug against "alsa" rather than "alsa-base").
>
> Can we use the soyuz package data to follow these aliases when people
> try to file bugs?
What do you mean exactly? AFAIK, today it's possible to file a bug
against a binary package, we use the soyuz data to find the
corresponding source package. If the binary package is published it
should work to file a bug against it, it's only the case where it isn't
published that fails.