Re: open bugs against removed packages still in stable

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Neil Williams wrote:
> When a package is removed (gchangepass, printtool), the removal
> message asks for the open bugs to be closed or re-assigned. These two
> packages still exist in stable and/or oldstable. It isn't appropriate
> to reassign any of these bugs, the question is should the bugs still be
> closed due to the removal from unstable even though the bugs are likely
> to apply to versions in stable and/or oldstable?
> 
> printtool has 6 bugs, gchangepass 1. Left open, are these to remain
> open until Lenny makes it into oldstable?

Unless they are possibly being fixed in a release update, I would close them
mentioning that the package has been removed.

Cheers

Luk