On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 05:49:23PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Finding out where this version range starts requires actual work by > > actual people. You can't automate that. The version in the bugreport > > is just the version the submitter happened to use, it doesn't say how > > old the bug is. > > And frequently the version the submitter reports is just wrong, for > instance if she sees the bug on one machine and reports it from another. > Fortunately, the version is currently only a hint to the maintainer, so > it doesn't do any more damage than a little confusion when it's wrong. We should do away with this problem by adding test cases which verify if a bug still applies. Of course this is not feasible with GUI applications :( cu Torsten
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