Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 27, 1999
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:46:37AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> I'm in favour of that practice (if it's not closed in a stable release, it's
> not closed at all, just fixed), but other people disagree. Try to find some
> docs that state it's one way or the other. There were none last time I
> looked.
One could regard the behaviour of dinstall as some kind of a reference
on this. It closes bugs when the packages containing the fix hit the
unstable archive. The message sent to the -done address says, among other
things:
"Note that this package is not part of the released stable Debian
distribution. It may have dependencies on other unreleased software,
or other instabilities. Please take care if you wish to install it.
The update will eventually make its way into the next released Debian
distribution."
In this light closing bugs not fixed in stable is OK.
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