On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:34:40PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 21-Nov-00, 14:45 (CST), Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote: > > So it would still be grave/important, but noted that a fix has been > > prepared. > So what's the point of this? If the fix is not generally available to > users, the tag would seem to serve as only a marker for the maintainer > to note "yeah, I've fixed this". The (local to the maintainer) changelog > serves just as well. It's also useful to people considering fixing a bug, helping to avoid duplication of effort. -- Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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