On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:49:56PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:01:06PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote: > > > There's the question of affected distributions, and for this we have the > > > tags which are manually set when we need them. > > storing a version range would enable all scripts to get the list > > of affected distributions without the need to manually tag bugs. > > Finding out where this version range starts requires actual work by > actual people. You can't automate that. The version in the bugreport > is just the version the submitter happened to use, it doesn't say how > old the bug is. finding out which distributions are affected by a given bug is not much easier and the maintainer does not always need to find out the exact version, just one that is included in all affected distributions i think attaching the bugreport to some versions of the package is much more natural than to tag it with some distribution-tags that have to be changed once a package is moved to another dist. -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz // [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.home.pages.de] _________ ______________/// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /// dies ist eine manuell generierte mail, sie beinhaltet // tippfehler und ist auch ohne grossbuchstaben gueltig. / - Wer bereit ist, grundlegende Freiheiten aufzugeben, um sich kurzfristige Sicherheit zu verschaffen, der hat weder Freiheit noch Sicherheit verdient. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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