developers-reference: Please document bug handling in experimental uploads (was: experimental uploads and closed bugs)
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.3.5
Severity: wishlist
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Andreas Barth said:
>>
>> Do you have a proposal how to write it? If so, please feel free to raise
>> a bug against the developers reference (or remember me often enough to
>> fix it :).
>
> Adding:
> Note that uploads to experimental do not close bugs, but they do add the
> tag 'fixed-in-experimental'. Bugs addressed by NMU's to experimental keep
> the normal behavior, that is, they add the tag 'fixed'.
RCS file: /cvs/debian-doc/ddp/manuals.sgml/developers-reference/developers-reference.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.250
diff -u -r1.250 developers-reference.sgml
--- developers-reference.sgml 15 Nov 2004 10:35:27 -0000 1.250
+++ developers-reference.sgml 8 Dec 2004 09:50:05 -0000
@@ -2099,6 +2099,12 @@
We prefer the <tt>closes: #<var>XXX</var></tt> syntax, as it is the
most concise entry and the easiest to integrate with the text of the
<file>changelog</file>.
+ <p>
+If an upload to experimental has a <tt>closes: #<var>XXX</var></tt> in
+its <file>changelog</file>, the bug is not actually closed. Instead
+the tag <tt>fixed-in-experimental</tt> is added to the bug. Bugs
+addressed by NMUs to experimental keep the normal behavior, that is,
+they add the tag <tt>fixed</tt>.
<p>
If you happen to mistype a bug number or forget a bug in the changelog
entries, don't hesitate to undo any damage the error caused. To reopen
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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