Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!
Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
>> It is in fact detrimental for a third group, people who are trying to
>> extract the version in which a given bug was fixed.
>
> Aah, but if the bug wasn't fixed due to a change in the package, then it is
> misleading to say that the bug was somehow "fixed" in that version of the
> package. It implies that versions less than the one in which the changelog
> entry appear have the bug - which they do not.
They were fixed by a change upstream and presumably this is the first
Debian release of that upstream release.
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