Bug#154817: general: bugs should not be closed by uploads to experimental
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:49:28AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 05:40 , Erich Schubert wrote:
> >actually any bug closed by an upload to unstable should
> >be tagged "woody", shouldn't it? Because it is not fixed there.
>
> No, because there is no reason to expect it exists there, in
> general. Software in unstable can be much newer, and thus
> affected by a much different bug set.
>
> Now, as to if it should be tagged sarge, that is a different story...
To help handling such situations, maybe "negative distrib tags" would be
useful. That is, tags like "not-woody", which would be mutually exclusive
with their obvious counterpart. The meaning of their presence would be
obvious, and their absence would mean "not evaluated for this distrib".
In this case, the Version field would be used to possibly set an initial
positive tag. An upload to any dist would set "not-<dist>", possibly
clearing the counterpart.
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