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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jeanbaptiste.lallement@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/03/2010 01:38 AM, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> Brian Murray wrote:
> > The bug is currently about xserver-xorg-video-intel but it was
> > originally filed about xorg-server.  You can tell this by the
> > SourcePackage line in the bug description.
> <...>
> > So I envision that xorg-server
> > will be a collection of xorg-server patterns and also
> > xserver-xorg-video- driver patterns.  Does that make sense to everyone
> > else?
That really makes sense.

> xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg-video-intel, xserver-xorg-input-evdev ...
> wesnoth: wesnoth-core wesnoth-httt wesnoth-l wesnoth-low ...
In the case of wesnoth the packages are issued from the same 
sourcepackage. They will all pull the bugpattern named wesnoth.xml.
But you could have this situation with the nvidia drivers. The source 
packages differs (the suffix is -version) but the failure can be the 
same (diversion, build failure, ...)

Couldn't we add some kind of inclusion rule to the bugpattern ?

Something like: <include sourcepackage="xserver-xorg-video-intel"/>
and put the pattern in the xserver-xorg-video-intel

and if a pattern applies to many packages, you'll just have to put the 
pattern in a common file and include it.

>      This may ultimately save space if there are a lot of such
> patterns, but I'm not sufficiently familiar with the implentation to
> know if this would be hard in terms of local or LP resources.
It's not technically difficult to implement but it needs some discussion 
to avoid common issues like circular inclusion, mass grouping of 
unrelated reports, rule exclusion for certain packages, scalability, ...

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-JB