Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:42:49PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Then downgrade it. There's a mismatch there anyway. A serious bug
> should *never* be tagged as wontfix. Either it needs to be fixed or
> it's not really serious.
This is not true. For example, architecture-dependent data in /usr/share
is a serious bug, but if a version in woody has this bug, it is still
wontfix: such a bug doesn't render the package nearly unusable, doesn't
cause dataloss, isn't a security issue, hence, isn't important enough to
risk breaking stuff in woody for..
RC bugs tagged woody (and not sarge or sid) do in no way affect sarge's
release, you can safely leave them around for documentation purposes
(i.e., letting people know you're aware of the bug in woody, but that it
won't be resolved in woody, so people won't file new bugs for it).
--Jeroen
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