Bug relations, '#nnn blocked by #mmm'

[James Henstridge]

On 08/03/06, Stefan Potyra <sistpoty at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag 07 März 2006 17:09 schrieb Brad Bollenbach:
> > On 2-Mar-06, at 11:51 AM, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > kiko asked me to send a mail describing my use case for the subject.
> > > It is just what made me ask currently, I haven't thought about cases
> > > that need the support more.
>
> I can add a simple use case from MOTU-land: basically any transition matches
> exactly the #nnn blocked by #mmm relationship.
>
> Example: the (still outstanding) allegro -> allegro4.2-transition: First
> allegro4.2 needs to be synced, then some packages can be rebuilt (e.g. wing
> #33684, atanks #33679, libdumb #33672). Some packages also build-depend on
> libdumb and thus cannot be rebuilt before libdumb was rebuilt (e.g. kraptor
> #33681, rafkill #33685).

Would a single bug with multiple bug tasks (one on each source
package) cover this particular use case?

It doesn't make the dependencies between the related tasks explicit,
but it does group them logically (all the package updates relate to
the same problem, right?).

James.