Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?

Lorna

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--=_8CD33332.E283CA79-- --===============58744612875706204== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 139 _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats --===============58744612875706204==-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17992 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2003 19:34:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monty-python.gnu.org) (199.232.76.173) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2003 19:34:06 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 191ALR-0005eM-00 for listarch-gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:25:53 -0500 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 191AIz-0004lw-00 for help-gnats@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:23:21 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 191AEE-0003et-00 for help-gnats@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:18:27 -0500 Received: from ifgw.interface-ag.com ([62.138.6.194] helo=mail.InterFace-AG.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 191ACe-0003O5-00 for help-gnats@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:16:48 -0500 Received: by mail.InterFace-AG.com (Smail3.2) from Pinguin.InterFace-AG.com with smtp id ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:16:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by Pinguin.InterFace-AG.com (Smail3.2) from interface-ag.com with esmtp id ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:16:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3E8C889C.C089FFC2@interface-ag.com> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 19:34:00 -0000 From: Dirk Schenkewitz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lorna Watts References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: help-gnats Subject: Re: Responsible field does not default correctly X-BeenThere: help-gnats@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion about GNU GNATS List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Sender: help-gnats-bounces+listarch-gnats-devel=sources.redhat.com@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnats-bounces+listarch-gnats-devel=sources.redhat.com@gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2003-q2/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 Hello Lorna, Lorna Watts schrieb: > > I have recently upgraded my gnats database from version 3 to version4. > I have 9 pre-existing databases. When a new PR is created in one of > these databases, the responsible does not default correctly to the > person named as responsible for that category in the categories file. What exactly happens instead ? > Since upgrading, I have created a new database, by copying the structure > of a pre-existing database and amending the config files in gnats-adm as > appropriate. When a PR is created in this new database it does default > to the correct user. > > Can anyone suggest what the problem might be? >From this much information, no. But I have an idea about what you could do next: If you copied the structure of an old database to build a new database, the databases should be rather similar. You might try a 'diff' between the old and the new 'dbconf' and 'responsible' files (from 'gnats-adm') to see if something shows up. When I converted from Gnats 1.113 to 3.999.1 I had not much trouble... HTH dirk -- Dirk Schenkewitz InterFace AG fon: +49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 126 Leipziger Str. 16 fax: +49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 83 D-82008 Unterhaching http://www.interface-ag.de mailto:dirk.schenkewitz@interface-ag.de _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats