Re: RC buggy package migrated to testing

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

"Shaun Jackman" <sjackman@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 24, 2007 11:05 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > Because there's no version information on bug #449176, so britney
> > concludes that both the old and new versions of the package are
> > equally buggy.
> 
> That does not seem like a very safe default behaviour. When a new RC
> bug has been submitted, it's a rather likely situation that the bug is
> present in unstable and wasn't present before.

I don't see how you get the "and wasn't present before" part of that.
Surely this is exactly what version tagging is for?

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Ben Finney