Re: apt list-bugs question
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:43:41PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> When I do and apt-get upgrade, list-bugs produces a short list of bugs
> and asks me if I want to proceed. However, I'm not sure how to
> interpret the information it provides. For example, take ssh. Of one
> bug it says <done>, of the other it says <open>, yet the summary at
> the end says that ssh has two bugs. Is this a bug in list-bugs, or
> does <done> not mean that the bug has been fixed? The man page
> doesn't say what <done> means.
I suspect that apt-listbugs just lists all the non-archived bugs: bugs
are archived after 28 days of being closed with no activity. Offhand
this would strike me as suboptimal behaviour by apt-listbugs. (I haven't
really looked at it yet, though.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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