Re: [2001-11-29] Freeze Update
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> You're cordially invited to work on enhancing the BTS to make this sort of
> thing actually workable. Note that what you propose, at least in the
> context of the current BTS, takes us back to a much much worse situation
> than before we were able to close bugs in the changelog.
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> I'm sorry for not being the big coder who knows how to enhance the BTS -
> but anyway you said that this proposal that would have prevented the
> problem I mentioned in my last mail would be worse than the current
> situation where we don't know which closed bugs will still apply to the
> frozen distribution.
dinstall/katie is modified to tag bugs 'woody', instead of closing/fixing.
Then, britney(the testing script) needs to send closed/fixed bugs when a
package moves to testing(it scans the .changes, or opens the changelog, or
something).
This doesn't really require mods to the bts.
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