On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:34:40PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 21-Nov-00, 14:45 (CST), Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
> > So it would still be grave/important, but noted that a fix has been
> > prepared.
> So what's the point of this? If the fix is not generally available to
> users, the tag would seem to serve as only a marker for the maintainer
> to note "yeah, I've fixed this". The (local to the maintainer) changelog
> serves just as well.
It's also useful to people considering fixing a bug, helping to avoid
duplication of effort.
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