On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:22:11PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 06:40:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Am I the only one under the impression that the "sid" tag is completely > > useless? > > Unless the testing scripts start to add to all bugs in a packages > > tagged "sid" also a tag "sarge" when a version of this package enters > > testing I don't see much value in the "sid" tag. > The whole class of tags is not particularly useful; they are a temporary > substitute for proper version tracking in debbugs (which Colin Watson is > implementing). In general, this is true; however, see my example of severity: grave bugs that only exist in unstable and not in testing because of package removals that are in progress. I've filed a number of such bugs in an effort to speed library transitions along, and they are not necessarily grounds for removing a package from testing. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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