Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 27, 1999
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:27:40PM +0200, Ruud de Rooij wrote:
> So if there is no bug report against something, it works correct?
If it does not, there should be a bug report.
> You just said that because dinstall does it that way, and nobody objected,
> that's the way things should be done.
No, I offered a data point for discussion. I never said that dinstall
should be considered the definitive reference on this.
> Why? It's a bug that has not been fixed yet in your package in the released
> version of Debian. Why should it be reassigned from your package to some
> pseudopackage?
Because once I've fixed it in unstable, there's nothing I can do about it.
Therefore it's no longer my bug report.
> bug web pages, and won't find it because it's listed under the
> "release-manager pseudopackage" and not under the package it belongs to.
True. This is a failing of the BTS.
> Why not simply set the severity to fixed until the package is in the stable
> distribution?
"Severity: fixed" is for NMU's.
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