Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:21:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
That would be the BTS version tracking support, which is slated to be
deployed immediately post-sarge.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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