Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2
>> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
DS> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
EZ> That sounds familiar. :-) The boot-floppies package has some "ancient"
EZ> bug reports that are difficult to deal with (hardware-specific bugs). Is
EZ> it OK to contact the bug submitter more than one year after he submitted
EZ> the report, just to tell him, "is this bug already present in Debian2.0"?
DS> I do try to do that, but what do you do when the mail gets bounced because
DS> the reporter is not at that address any longer?
In debian-testing there was an advice for packagetesters what to do with
bugreports. It was something like:
Try to reproduce it with the newest version of the package and ask the
original submitter to reproduce the bug. If no one can do this, then close
the bug and state that the bug is no longer present in version xyz.
(Hopefully I remember this right)
If the original submitter is not reachabble, one could ask someone else to
reproduce the bug and act like above. Yes, there are bugs where this is
not a good approach because you would have to have the very special
environment the original submitter had to test it.
Regarding the bootdisks: When 2.0 is out and the submitter can't reproduce
the bug or is not reachable, I would close the bugs. The 1.3 disks are
obsolete by then, aren't they.
Generally, I believe the BTS should represent *real* bugs, present in current
stable and unstable, not zombies.
I am currently scanning the BTS wrt to this. I found some bugs submitted
be me which have been solved by new versions. I didn't close them (I
didn't know I could), nor did the maintainer. I believe there are quite a
lot of these.
Dale, I close my report #12861 on locales (one less on your list
:-). Unfortunately, the newest locales misbehaves wrt to de_DE again
(bug #21471).
Ciao,
Martin
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