Re: how to handle "woody" bugs correctly
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:32:21AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.
It also gives positive feed back to anyone who experiences a bug "that
bug has already been reported and fixed in unstable" so they can make
decisions like "is it worth upgrading in order to eliminate this bug?"
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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