Hi, #531002 made me bring this to -devel. It seems Debian BTS fails in not offering an 'invalid' or 'notabug' tag for cases which are not covered by 'wontfix' [0]. I've found the following discussions about this issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/227511 http://bugs.debian.org/376594 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/11/msg01091.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00793.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/02/msg00863.html (just a comment) For me it doesn't make sense to mark something as "I will not fix" if actually there's nothing to fix. I'm curious to know how other maintainers have addressed such cases in BTS. Also, I don't think usertag covers this need. It's not a standard, and I guess* 'invalid' situations are so common which should deserve something more consistent (useful for statistics, searches/filters etc). We know other very popular bug tracking systems offer a standard way to deal with bugs which are not in fact bugs. Surely it's not a reason to implement this in BTS; on the other hand, Debian development is not that different from other large free software projects. So we can at least consider they've got a reason to offer this feature (the same reason *I* see for Debian). * No, I don't have a proof as asked in #376594, that's the reason I would like to know other's opinions here. [0] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags -- Tiago Bortoletto Vaz http://tiagovaz.org 0xA504FECA - http://pgp.mit.edu
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