should bugs really be closed?

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>]

As gcc changelog.Debian states, bugs filed against earlier versions of gcc
(e.g. gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95) are closed when they are fixed in later version
(e.g. gcc 3.3).

Is that really correct?
gcc-3.2 package is still in Debian and still contains those bugs. So IMHO
bugs should be still opened against it, unless a fix is backported.