RE: How long may a bug be alive
On 06-Jul-2001 Otto Wyss wrote:
> Since I was curious why dpkg wasn't updated in testing and looked at its bug
> reports. There I saw an important bug which
> is _3_years_and_161_days_old_ ! Is this truly still an unfixed bug with
> priority important?
>
> How long may a bug be alive until it or the offending application gets
> removed or changed to a lower priority. Isn't
> there a procedure to handle anything with passes a certain deadline according
> to its priority?
>
Some bugs are truly annoying but the architecture of the related code makes it
rather difficult to fix.
I can not think of an intelligent way to age bugs automagically.
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