Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

[Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>]

> > fileutils         31695  mv file1 file2 directory doesn't work anymore [31]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
> > fileutils         31696  rmdir -p is broken in 4.0 of fileutils [31]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
> 
> I don't know what it is about these fileutils bugs, but they apparently
> keep dropping off the exclude list. They are only applicable to the POTATO
> package!

They were never on my exclude list.


> Maybe some intelligence should be built into the BTS / scanning of the
> BTS? After all, the package version is (should) be available in the
> report. If the slink version is less than the version with the reported
> bug, then at the least indicate that this bug may not be applicable to
> the release-critical list?

I thought of that, but a bug against one release could easily be in both
an earlier or later release.

                                          Brian
                                  ( bcwhite@pobox.com )

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