Re: protocol: closing bugs
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:51:34PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 05:44:33PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 01:23:22PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > That said, yes, I would keep them open until potato is released.
> >
> > I thought protocol was to close bugs fixed in the latest upload,
> > even though they are not fixed in stable? I suspect the BTS
> > would have many more entries if we couldn't close bug reports
> > until a new release is made.
>
> Please see my wishlist bug #46434 against bugs.debian.org.
This seems a reasonable proposal. I haven't had much trouble with
bug reports against slink versions here, but I imagine for bigger packages
it could be a nightmare.
Leaving them open without special information about versions
would make a maintainer's bug list unmanagable though.
Hamish
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