Bug#489457: experimental does not solve stable

[Con Kolivas <con@kolivas.org>]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:51:23 Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Wait. I don't understand how suggesting installing a package from the
> > experimental packages is meant to be a solution for the stable
>
> I didn't. The only thing I did was just to mark it as fixed in the 3.0
> packages.
> If you look at the version graph (I fixed the version info right now) you
> see it'll still appear as not fixed for stable.
>
> > release. I have this same problem on 3 standard lenny installations on
>
> a) This bugs is closed with 3.0.0-1, which is not in experimental anymore,
>    but followers of it are even in *testing*
> b) bugs get closed when the fixed package appears.
>    It doesn't say that this is fixed in stable but says that it's fixed in
>    the version it was closed with. It will still appear open for stable.
> c) it's not a (release-)critical bug, so I fear I will never get the
> approval to fix it in stable - expecially since we don't have a patch but
> just know that it works in 3.0.

Thanks for explaining that. That's a massive disappointment because it's an 
absolute showstopper for oo.o and Japanese word processing. Furthermore, it's 
purely a debian bug because the oo.o packages don't have this issue, only the 
debian ones. I guess I have no choice but to break package management and 
start installing random crap again.

-ck