Bug#339141: There are some unarchived bugs left

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Don Armstrong wrote:
>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/version.cgi?package=phylip;found=phylip%2F1%3A3.6.1-2;fixed=phylip%2F1%3A3.65-1;info=1
>>
>> phylip 1:3.6.1-2 is still buggy and is in unstable and testing.
>
> Perhaps this is because of the missing mipsel package according to
>
>    http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=phylip
>
> OK, that might make sense.  I did not noticed this functionality because
> a bug was archived once it was marked done for 28 days.  I agree that it
> makes sense to keep it as long as the package did not reached testing.

Yeah, how archiving works is explained here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/06/msg00004.html


Don Armstrong

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