Distributed bug tracking [LWN.net]

Distributed bug tracking

Posted May 14, 2008 19:04 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Distributed bug tracking by mh
Parent article: Distributed bug tracking

The Debian BTS also tracks the status of a bug in different branches.

Here is a bug that is currently open (marked as red) on two different branches:

http://bugs.debian.org/456780

This can be done in retrospect. I can mark a version (= tag) as buggy well after 
releasing it. Though there's a useful shortcut for closing a bug in a changelog of a new 
release, which is mostly an equivalent of a commit log .

There is a different use case that has not been mentioned so far:

What about this bug upstream? What about this bug in Gentoo?

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