On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > As gcc changelog.Debian states, bugs filed against earlier versions of gcc > > (e.g. gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95) are closed when they are fixed in later version > > (e.g. gcc 3.3). > > > > Is that really correct? > > gcc-3.2 package is still in Debian and still contains those bugs. So IMHO > > bugs should be still opened against it, unless a fix is backported. > > These bugs won't be fixed in gcc-3.2. gcc-3.3 is a newer upstream version. > Just because it's made as a separate package doesn't mean a newer upstream > hasn't been uploaded(3.3). > > If we follow your advice, then all packages would need to have separate > per-(major-)version instances, so that bugs on older versions could be fixed. I think he just wants them kept open until the old gcc versions get removed from the archive. That does make a certain amount of sense. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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