Bugzilla slightly confusing

Erik Harrison erikharrison at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 21:07:01 CET 2005


On 12/12/05, Paul Tansom <paul at aptanet.com> wrote:
> OK, I've just filed a bug on http://bugzilla.xfce.org after a quick
> check through to see if there were any similar bugs. There weren't based
> on my search using the drop down selection of Terminal. That's from
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org and choosing search at the bottom of the page.
>
> After filing the bug I find myself on a Common Xfce Queries page
> (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/common_queries.cgi) and check to see if my bug
> is there. This has a different list of options for assigning bugs to and
> in this list is xfce4-terminal and on that search I find a matching bug,
> but there is no sign of mine - in fact there seem to be a different list
> of bugs!
>
> So xfce4-terminal is a symlink to Terminal, but there seem to be two
> different lists of bugs for them both. The end result is that these two
> bugs look to be the same one, but categorised one against the app and
> one against the symlink!

Actually, what's confusing you is Debian packaging. Terminal and
xfce4-terminal are NOT the same app. You are running Terminal, which
Debian seems to have chosen to call xfce4-terminal, just to confuse
you. They are two different apps with two different places to file
bugs.

>
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1111 (xfce4-terminal symlink)
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1262 (Terminal app)
>
> I've added comments to both bugs to bring any work together.
>
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Erik

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