Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
> It is in fact detrimental for a third group, people who are trying to
> extract the version in which a given bug was fixed.
Aah, but if the bug wasn't fixed due to a change in the package, then it is
misleading to say that the bug was somehow "fixed" in that version of the
package. It implies that versions less than the one in which the changelog
entry appear have the bug - which they do not.
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