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Debian Lenny frozen

Posted Jul 28, 2008 20:12 UTC (Mon) by ss (guest, #5488)
Parent article: Debian Lenny frozen

Looking at the Bug chart, it would appear that there are more bugs in the stable release then
currently in testing!

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Debian Lenny frozen

Posted Jul 29, 2008 14:43 UTC (Tue) by sampablokuper (guest, #53150) [Link]

Number of bugs reported so far != number of bugs in software

Software that's been in wide use will have been eyeballed more, and will have had more bugs
filed as a result, in most cases.

open bugs in debian stable

Posted Aug 9, 2008 5:23 UTC (Sat) by undefined (guest, #40876) [Link]

and hopefully the bugs will stay open and not be closed when the bug is fixed in unstable.

before debian allowed/implemented adding release-specific tags ("sarge", "etch", etc) to a bug
report in the bug tracking system (bts), it really frustrated me to debug a newly installed
package for an hour or two only to find that the bug was known and previously filed against,
but was closed once the fix was introduced in an upload to unstable, removing all visibility
that the bug existed in stable.

maintainers didn't like open bugs because it made it appear as if they weren't maintaining
their packages, so they would close them and refuse to leave them open while the bug existed
in stable.  but now with release-specific tagging, i haven't met a maintainer that required
that all fixed bugs be closed (regardless of the release).

open bugs in debian stable

Posted Aug 12, 2008 20:47 UTC (Tue) by kreutzm (subscriber, #4700) [Link]

This is how version tracking works. The bug *is* fixed. I am not sure how, but in principle
you can now more easily determine which bugs still apply to Testing than previously, where you
manually had to add the "sarge" and friends tags (and, btw., they previously also changed
their meaning).

Debian Lenny frozen

Posted Aug 3, 2008 8:46 UTC (Sun) by bockman (guest, #3650) [Link]

Part of it is because nobody fixes bugs in a stable release, unless they are security bugs or very critical bugs. It would not make sense, since only fixes for security and very critical bugs are released in the stable 'point releases'. Therefore, bugs reported against the stable release just accumulate. This does not mean they are not accounted for; if they are still applicable for testing, they get fixed there.