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Re: Upload to experimental closes bugs in BTS?



On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> I've just uploaded a package to experimental, using standard Closes: XXXXXX 
> syntax in changelog.
> 
> In past, that caused bug XXXXXX to be just tagges as fixed in experimental.
> This time, the bug was closed.
> 
> Why?

Because we track whether a bug is fixed or not by version, not just by
whether it's been closed or not. See
http://wiki.debian.org/BugsVersionTracking et al. for more
information.


Don Armstrong

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