Bug#1024997: install-info: dir entry for emacs is bolloxed
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 10:37:00AM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>Am 30.01.2023 um 06:51 teilte Brendan O'Dea mit:
>> This is still present in the unstable version of the package. You
>> should probably keep this open until 7.0 gets to unstable.
>>
>IIRC the Debian BTS is based on versions, unless it is an RC bug. So
>I'll probably forget about this bug. Please be so kind to close it, when
>TInfo 7.0.x entered unstable. I'm not sure, if this will happen before
>bookworm.
There is no automatic promotion from experimental.
It is reasonable to mark a bug as fixed/closed on successful upload to
unstable, because over time that fix will make it to testing, stable,
old-stable, etc without further involvement from the maintainer.
You shouldn't mark a bug as fixed however when only the experimental
version works, since making that fix more widely available will take an
additional upload to unstable. That unstable upload should be the one
which closes the bug.
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing says that problems are
considered fixed when "the bug fix enters the Debian archive". The
experimental distribution is not "the Debian archive".
>From https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ftparchives.en.html#dists:
"Experimental is used for packages which are still being developed,
and with a high risk of breaking your system." and "Users shouldn't
be using packages from there [..]"
--bod
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