Re: About Release-critial bugs page
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:57:15 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Yes, in the majority of cases. But there are probably a good number
> of false positives. One common pattern is the following: RC bug
> #nnnnnn is reported against package foo in version x.y.z (which may
> or may not be in stable). Then somebody (often the maintainer of
> foo) finds out the bug is in package bar instead and sends mail to
> control@bugs.debian.org:
>
> reassign nnnnnn bar
>
> with the result that the bug has no version information anymore, and
> the BTS assumes that it applies to all versions of bar, although this
> is often not the case.
>
> Last week I had a look at the list myself and added version or suite
> information to about 20 bugs where I could identify that they don't
> apply to Etch. In many other cases investigating whether a particular
> bug applies to stable would have taken considerable time, though.
>
So can it be the reason for the several hundred bugs discovered and
fixed in just a few days? Your explanation seems to fit the case.
>
> Sven
>
>
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