Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote: > 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. It's also very useful for people who are wondering how long it's going to be until the bug is fixed. -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ sam@topic.com.au | tSA Consulting | PGP key available on key servers PGP key fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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