Re: closing Bullseye bugs pointing to a fix in Unstable?

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

> Surely "Closes:" is very convenient, but wouldn't you agree that this
> puts the users of Stable at a disadvantage?

Well, "stable" means old software with old bugs. Those who want the new
bugs, which are introduced by fixing the old ones, have to run something
else.

I understand that fixes for severe bugs get backported to stable and even
oldstable if they are important enough, and feasible, and the maintainers
take action.
As upstream developer and auxiliary package preparer i only experienced
this once:
  https://tracker.debian.org/news/1092508/accepted-libburn-150-1deb10u1-source-into-proposed-updates-stable-new-proposed-updates/
along the rules of
  https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates


Have a nice day :)

Thomas