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Re: Bug#905578 is marked as fixed but not closed



On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 08:50:44AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 05:21:55PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> > Hi Julian,
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 08:34:50PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Hiya,
> > > 
> > > I just ran into this bug (#905578) on a testing system.  I note that
> > > it has been marked as fixed in 40.1, but for some reason that I don't
> > > fully understand, marking a bug as fixed just says that it is fixed in
> > > some version, it doesn't actually close the bug, so this bug is still
> > > open.  I presume that you intended to close it with the release of
> > > 40.1?
> > > 
> > > Best wishes,
> > > 
> > >    Julian
> > > 
> > 
> > I decided to leave this particular bug open in the hopes of reducing
> > the proliferation of duplicate bugs on this issue (fixed in sid), and
> > I plan to forcemerge 905578 into 905235--which will close it--once
> > 40.1 is able to be installed in buster; that will take at least
> > another eight days.
> 
> That makes sense!  It will take somewhat longer than eight days,
> though: it needs emacs 1:25.2+1-9 to transition first, and that is at
> least 13 more days.

Thanks :-)

Good point.  Wow, 13 days seems like a while to leave testing in a
bad state...I'm considering resolving the packages contributing to the
DebCI issues that are delaying emacs' migration.  Not yet a firm
commitment at this point.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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