IBugTask.reportedin should return a distribution, a sourcepackage, or a product

[Brad Bollenbach]

Quoting from an sabdfl email:

> - Distribution, this is a bugtask that has ONLY distribution, not a
> distrorelease nor a sourcepackage name. It is used as an "untriaged bug"
> storage point, bugtasks on a distro only are bugtasks that need to be
> redirected to a sourcepackage by the QA team.
> - SourcePackageName + Distro, this is the normal kind of distro
> bugtask, it is targeted on a particular sourcepackage name in a given
> distro, but not required to be fixed within a given distrorelease.
> - SourcePackageName + DistroRelease, this is a bugtask that is focused
> on a specific *distrorelease* and source package. In other words, it's a
> bug we want to fix in Breezy specifically.
> - Product, this is an upstream bug
>
> Currently a SourcePackage object only can be a "SourcePackageName +
> DistroRelease", which is the third kind of bugtask. If you initialise it
> with a Distribution, it uses the distro.currentrelease as its
> distrorelease. I would like to extend SourcePackage so that it can be a
> true SourcePackageName + Distribution as well, representing the concept
> of "the source package called foo in the distro bar" regardless of
> distrorelease.
>
> - please implement BugTask.target to return a Distribution, a
> SourcePackage, or a Product.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

a) Mark uses BugTask.target too :-P

b) How does this differ from bug 1424?

[Brad Bollenbach (bradb)]

1424 is to do with the renaming (which is probably a [trivial] fix.)

This bug report involves semantic changes to the return value.

One thing that was probably not obvious in the other bug report (re: the choice of the name of the attribute) was that I first confirmed with sabdfl on IRC that he liked the name before filing the bug report.