Re: Potential BTS improvements

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:48:44PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Fr, 2004-03-26 at 20:22, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If you e.g. want to automatically see how many bugs that are already 
> > fixed in unstable are still present in testing you have to force all 
> > maintainers to check whether the version in testing is affected when 
> > they upload a fix and update the bug accordingly.
> 
> If you upload an updated package to unstable with indicates a close in
> its changelog for an open bug then the bug in testing will not be
> resolved before the package finally enters testing.
> Perhaps such a kind of version tracking is meant?

Exactly.

But to know whether the bug affects the version in testing, cases like
closing by sending a mail to <version>-done@b.d.o have to be correctly
handled (e.g. "not a bug" is different from "already fixed in my upload
waiting in incoming").

> Bye,
> phil

cu
Adrian

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