Re: how to handle "woody" bugs correctly
Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org> wrote:
> I'm not completly sure how to handle "woody" bugs correctly.
> I think a bug can only be closed if there is a fixing package for the
> user in the Debian archiv available.
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html tells:
> "Problems in packages can only be considered fixed once a package that
> includes the bug fix enters the Debian archive."
> So for woody there are 3 possibilities when a woody bug can be closed:
> - the security team fixes the problem in a DSA
> - the stable release manager fixes the problem with a package in a 3.0r?
> version of woody
> - sarge will be released and the new version in sarge fixes the problem
> Is this correct or are other possibilities (except its not a bug)?
Hello,
If you take the quoted sentence literally you see that is not talking
about "the Debian stable distribution" but about "the Debian archive",
i.e. it is basically ok to simply close bugs that apply only to the
version in woody, and it is done so frequently. OTOH if you keep it
open and tag it woody you might not get another bugreport for the same
problem.
cu andreas
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