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Re: How to close Bugs in experimental



On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:38 +0100, Armin Berres wrote:
> There was _never_ any version of Initng in unstable. The current version
> (uploaded today) doesn't contain the bugs anymore.
> 
> > - Can you point me to a bug which is counted as "open" for unstable when
> >   it's clearly clearly tagged fixed for some version?
> > - Which statistics do you mean?
> 
> I'm talking about this statistics:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/initng.html
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.berres@onlinehome.de
> 
> Have a look at the pending bugs. If I shouldn't close them I shouldn't
> have them marked pending too (cause pending means pending to unstable as
> I see now).
> The bugs are still as pending in the satistic, but they are now fixed in
> every Debian package (after tey've been built).
> If I wouldn't have marked them pending they would now still appear as
> opened...

You should ask yourself the question here: why should I keep this bug
open? A reason to keep a bug open is if there's another version in
Debian still affected. But there isn't. The bug is not present in Debian
for any release. It can safely be closed. This is of course for your
special case where experimental is the only distribution containing your
package.

In a more general sense, it's important to note that the
fixed-in-experimental tag is deprecated, and definately not necessary
anymore. The BTS version tracking feature is just what you want. It
allows for specifying exactly which versions of the package contain the
bug. The BTS can than determine all by it self to which distributions
(sid, etch, woody, experimental) this applies.

So, the correct way to handle this is to mail to
nnnnnn-done@bugs.debian.org with on the first line of your message
"Version: <fixed-version>". You should close bugs like this for any you
fix, regardless of in which distribution the fix will end up.


bye,
Thijs


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