apt-listbugs output question... was Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

[Kenward Vaughan <kaynjay@igalaxy.net>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:27:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:51:06AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > Silly question, perhaps, but I'm very unfamiliar with how one monitors
> > whether a known problem still exists.
> 
> If it's filed in the bug tracking system, at the moment you just have to
> look at the bug every so often, although there's some work outstanding
> on letting you subscribe to bugs.
> 
> If it's not, then you just have to look every so often. In the case of
> GNOME, reading the debian-gtk-gnome mailing list would probably be your
> best bet, if you aren't prepared to keep a very close eye on the state
> of testing (which I try to do for other reasons).

Thanks, Colin.

I just played a bit with apt-listbugs, and it seems to be the quickest way
to update myself on this particular package. Trying 'apt-listbugs list
libc6' gave the same output as I see in an apt-get operation.

I've now also discovered request@bugs.debian.org ... good, fuller source to
follow apt-listbugs.

Another trivia question for someone out there--

I noted the following bug types.  Is the "pending upload" essentially a
fixed bug not in the dist yet?  Is "resolved" one which is fixed?  Or is it
different than "closed" ?

--------
grave bugs of libc6 (2.3.1-17 -> ) <outstanding>
...
grave bugs of libc6 (2.3.1-17 -> ) <pending upload>
...
critical bugs of libc6 (2.3.1-17 -> ) <resolved>
...
--------

TIA,

Kenward
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