Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports
Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> writes:
> That's still requiring /manual intervention/, and lying about the true
> state of the bug to the BTS. Ideally the BTS should understand that the
> bug was closed by a particular version of the package (the one which had
> Closes: in it), and the bug is still present in earlier versions
> (perhaps it should also have the ability to record the version the bug
> appeared in as well). The BTS should be able to know that a bug is
> closed in testing automatically, rather than me sending messages to
> control@b.d.o; I must have sent at least 30 the past week alone.
Agreed; I'd really like to see this as well.
Another somewhat related matter that's bothered me for a while is that
right now the Debian bug tracking system is not particularly useful for
users of the stable version. The BTS is not likely to have much sign of
most of their bugs, the maintainers have to carry around stable-tagged
bugs (that then may show up as RC bugs in various summary reports) in
order to document stable issues that are already fixed in unstable or
testing, and the whole situation seems a bit confusing to what we would
anticipate is the "average" Debian user (someone who uses stable).
I'm not sure what the best fix is. Obviously, most bugs can't be fixed
for stable -- even a lot of RC bugs are questionable to fix for stable
once it's actually released. It would still be nice to give the user the
known information about a bug they're running into, including any
workarounds that had been found.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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