Re: Bug tracking system and testing distribution Re: Potato now stable
Christoph Martin wrote:
> We have a problem with the bug tracking system as long as we can't
> really find out to which versions of a package a bug really
> applies. We only mosttimes have the version of the packages where a
> problem showed up. But we don't know if the bug was introduced with
> this version or also applies to older ones. And in the case of
> different distributions, if the bug was reported eg. for frozen we
> don't know if it also exists in newer versions which are allready in
> unstable. This is also a problem if a bug which is in one distribution
> (like frozen or stable) gets fixed in another (unstable). Another
> issue is, that some bugs only appear in special architectures (like
> hurd, or powerpc). We really need a way to specify exactly to which
> version a version applies.
>
> As long as we don't have this feature we can't really get the
> "testing" distribution to work.
Well this is why bug reproducability is so important. I don't see how a
magic bullet to fix this issue is at all possible though.
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