Re: Do we have this situation now?

To: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Do we have this situation now?
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:04:34 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 6425614.gz88sPCYue@zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su> (Nikita V. Youshchenko's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:38:58 +0300")
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"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su> schrieb:

> 1. Package foo in testing has RC bug.
> 2. A version of foo that fixes the bug is uploaded to sid.
> 3. Bug is closed.
> 4. For whatever reason, new version of foo does not migrate to testing.
> 5. Sarge gets released with old version of foo that has that RC bug.

There is currently no technical solution to this (there will be, with
versioned bug reports). But since we are all reading
debian-devel-announce, we all know about
http://www.wolffelaar.nl/~sarge/, which is a fine social solution to
this problem.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer

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