On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:43 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > > > However, from a bug submitter point of view, I don't think I want to > > see the bug report kept open (tagged divergence) after it has > > actually been closed by a Debian-specific patch. As upstream it > > might make a fair bit of sense but as a user / bug submitter, it > > will just look odd. > > Would your opinion be different if the bug was "fixed" but not closed > nor archived, until the "divergence" tag is gone? I think that would be fine - as long as the bug is clearly "Fixed" and the relevant Debian www pages are updated. > > A user reporting a bug in foo should not still be wondering why the > > bug is open after the fix has been applied. > > Isn't that a matter easily resolved by presenting the bug information > appropriately in the interface? Yes - supported by the use of (Fixed: #1234) in debian/changelog, .changes etc. and a revised interface for PTS and DDPO to discriminate between Fixed and Closed bugs. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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