Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

[Kevin Glynn <glynn@info.ucl.ac.be>]

Andreas Metzler writes:
 > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote:
 > > I am the (new) maintainer for mozart. I have one Serious bug
 > > outstanding:
 > > 
 > >    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mozart). 
 > > 
 > > The bug was tagged wontfix, woody.  The bug has been fixed in versions
 > > later than woody.  What should I do? Will this just hang around
 > > forever?
 > [...]
 > 
 > Basically that is up to you as maintainer. Having open bugs in the BTS
 > tagged woody that you are not going to fix only serves one purpose:
 > documentation. If you do not think this is necessary close it.
 > 
 > Personally, for this specific bug I'd keep it open just a little bit
 > longer until sarge is released.

Thanks for the responses.  I understand now, I was just worried about
having open 'Serious' bugs so close to a freeze ....

regards
Kevin