Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98957
Feature request: version-release check
Last modified: 2013-06-23 23:10:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When someone reports a bug in a piece of software, and they're using an old version of the software, the bug is probably fixed already. Entering a bug at that point would be a waste of everyone's time. A solution would be to put a button on the bug entry page, next to 'Version-Release of Selected Component (if applicable)'. The button would say 'Check to see if newer component available'. It would work much like 'up2date' does, to find if a newer rpm is available, either in updates or in rawhide. It would cut down on already-solved-bug reports, saving Redhat employees from having to read, understand, reply and delete the bugreport, and save bug-submitters from potential embarrassment.
Red Hat's current Bugzilla version is 2.18. I am moving all older open bugs to this version. Any bugs against the older versions will need to be verified that they are still bugs. This will help me also to sort them better.
This enhancement is still on the wish-list. I'd like to cut-and-paste the rpm filename or package name into a new bug report, and get an authoritative 'this is/is not the current rpm for this package'. Additionally, it could tell the user where the current rpm (binary and source) can be found, especially if it's in testing or rawhide. Theoretically everyone is running up2date or yum and will never have an outdated rpm on their system. Theory never equals practice. :-)
Given that bugzilla runs on an external site and does not have access to our internal package databases, we would not be able to implement this properly unless we keep an updated package list in Bugzilla's own tables. This would be difficult to maintain. I interim solution would be better documentation to the users on how to obtain this information from other places.
That would be acceptable.