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Re: Bug reports for removed packages



On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:44:30PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Hamish Moffatt (hamish@debian.org) [050819 17:36]:
> > When is it ok to close bug reports package?

> > My old package 'ipac' is only in oldstable now. There are 8 open bug
> > reports. Is it appropriate for me to close them?

> It used to be ok to close bugs, but as we have now version tracking, you
> might want to only add appropriate version numbers (so that the bugs
> don't look closed in oldstable).

But that's only applicable if there is in fact a version number in which
the bug was closed; if the package was removed without the bug ever
having been fixed, closing with a version number doesn't make any sense
here.

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