open bugs in debian stable [LWN.net]

open bugs in debian stable

Posted Aug 9, 2008 5:23 UTC (Sat) by undefined (guest, #40876)
In reply to: Debian Lenny frozen by sampablokuper
Parent article: Debian Lenny frozen

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).

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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).