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Re: should bugs really be closed?



On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 19:59, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Jamin W. Collins writes:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:28:42PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Could tag them with the release name that affected release name (woody,
> > sarge, sid, etc...).  It's what I've done with the Jabber bug reports
> > that only affect the woody release. 
> 
> well, you can still get the version, when the bug was closed from the
> changelog. If we do not close the bug, nobody will get a note that the
> bug has been fixed (in the new default version). Bugs reported for 3.2
> have been closed when 3.3 became the default version, not earlier.
> 
Surely you'd do something like this:

clone <bugnumber> -1
reassign -1 gcc-3.2
tags -1 fixed
thanks

> what interest does Debian have in keeping these bugs open?
> 
Because they are bugs in gcc-3.2, so prevent you getting duplicates all
the time as well as let users know that to fix that problem they need to
use gcc-3.3 instead.

Scott

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