Hi folks,

I'm learning the Debian BTS and control operations, and am trying to
merge three RC bugs that relate to a common cause (#1031293, #1031443, #1031449).

It seems difficult to get the order of the 'affects' list to match in
each of the bugs, seemingly a requirement for them to merge
successfully - I've spent a little over an hour attempting various
combinations of +, - and = operations using "Control: affects" headers
to try to get a match.

The latest error from BTS was:

Unable to merge bugs because:
affects of #1031293 is 'src:python-scrapy,src:python-zstandard,src:rpmlint,src:libzstd' not 'src:rpmlint,src:python-scrapy,src:python-zstandard,src:libzstd'

Is it necessary to use a strict ordering check for the 'affects'
field? And/or am I doing something stupid? (other than trying to
help with bugs that aren't marked 'help', which I admit may be causing nuisance)

Thanks,
James

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James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> writes:

I'm learning the Debian BTS and control operations, and am trying to
merge three RC bugs that relate to a common cause (#1031293, #1031443, #1031449).

It seems difficult to get the order of the 'affects' list to match in
each of the bugs, seemingly a requirement for them to merge
successfully - I've spent a little over an hour attempting various combinations of +, - and = operations using "Control: affects" headers
to try to get a match.

Generally for stuff like this just use forcemerge, which sets the metadata
of all of the other bugs to match the first one. I usually only try one
round of merge fixing before resorting to forcemerge for fiddly little disagreements like this.

--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 at 17:17, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

Generally for stuff like this just use forcemerge, which sets the metadata
of all of the other bugs to match the first one.

Thank you, Russ - forcemerge worked, and the bugs are now merged.

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