Bug#866731: closed by Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> (Already fixed in experimental)
On 07/01/2017 02:17 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 02:11:43PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use "fixed -1 0.0.9-1" rather than
>> closing the bug completely? The bug is still present in the unstable
>> package after all.
>
> When the BTS has enough information for doing version tracking
> it is irrelevant whether the bug is open or closed.
>
> Similar to an upload to unstable closing a bug, where the BTS also
> knows when the closed bug is still in testing.
That is all correct. But that only works if the package upload in
experimental would have actually closed a bug which it didn't.
So this mechanism doesn't work here.
Adrian
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