On 2018-10-21 08:17:33 -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> Control: tags 880593 - sid stretch
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 09:39:16AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Control: tags 880593 - experimental
> >
> > On 2018-10-20 15:22:48 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > > > tags 880593 + experimental
> > > Bug #880593 {Done: James McCoy <james...@debian.org>} [subversion]
> > > subversion: spurious error E160016 when operative and peg revisions
> > > differ with fsfs
> > > Added tag(s) experimental.
> >
> > No, the buggy versions are not in experimental, but in stretch.
>
> There was a version of the package with the bug in experimental.
No, the bug just has:
Found in versions subversion/1.9.7-2, subversion/1.9.5-1
where both 1.9.5-1 and 1.9.7-2 were in unstable.
> This was an attempt by Andreas to fix the tracking with respect to
> that. Quoting his response when I asked him about it:
>
> > The bug was tagged sid buster, and has a version in experimental.
> > UDD displays these bugs in an inconclusive way as "does not affect
> > experiental", which can have two causes:
> > * the bug is fixed in experimental
> > * the bug exists in experimental, but someone forgot to tag it accordingly
If the only reason is that the bug is fixed in experimental, I don't
think that the bug should be tagged "experimental". AFAIK, the right
tag for that is "fixed-in-experimental".
> > Therefore I tag all the ambiguous bugs + experimental, and let the fixed
> > versions decide whether the problem actually exists in experimental.
>
> The root of the problem is that you tagged this bug "sid stretch" in the
> first place. Please don't use these tags. Just let the version
> tracking do its work.
>
> The tags are only useful to indicate that, although the buggy version is
> present in multiple releases, only the tagged releases are affected.
I had added these tags with the hope of a fix for stretch (in addition
to sid), as upstream planned a backport to the 1.9 branch. This bug
occurs only with some particular files of some repositories, thus is
uncommon, but when it can occur, it is rather annoying.
In the meaning of these tags has changed, then
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags
should be updated.
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