Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > > AFAIK apt-listbugs only displays open bugs, if the bug is closed
> > > then it won't get displayed.
> > 
> > It will be displayed even when it's closed.  It does have some
> > heuristics to avoid showing irrelevant bugs.
> > 
> >  
> > > Ideally apt-listbugs needs to be updated to support the new
> > > versioning system in the BTS.
> > 
> > Taru; we've discussed face-to-face about handling the new BTS
> > versioning features last month[1]; how about implementing it?
> 
> Just be aware that it might show irrelevent results, cf. bug #334884.

Instead of specifying 'version=dist=unstable', specifying the 
exact version number seems to work, doesn't it?


As for apt-listbugs, apt-listbugs will know which version is going 
to be installed, and can check the metadata (summary file) directly, 
checking the Fixed-In tag to see if it's relevant or not.


regards,
	junichi