Re: RFC: behaviour of "bts show" command with new BTS default behaviour

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:50:46AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > When using "bts show package" or going to
> > "http://bugs.debian.org/package"; we get that behaviour, and I find
> > both of them annoying.
> 
> I switched the default to appending dist=untable because it actually
> tells you which bugs affect unstable; it's far more informative than
> merely categorizing based on whether a bug has been closed. If you
> know you want something else, you really should be using the precise
> url that you want.

So, the default is basicly for the maintainer of the package, so they can
see what bugs they need to fix in unstable?

Users on the other hand might be more interested in the bugs affecting
stable (or testing).  It seems more logical to just lists all bugs for
them.


Kurt