Hi all, Recently I filed a bug report against git-stuff[0] which itself been closed with the explanation that it's a duplicate of an earlier bug[1] which itself has been closed by the maintainer claiming it had been fixed in version 5-1.
While the new package indeed does not contain the bug itself when installed as a new package on a system which hadn't had it before, it does not fix the bug if installed on a system with the older version. As you can read in the first link, maintainer's not interested in including the fix for older versions. Widely available link[2] reads: Debian bug reports should be closed when the problem is fixed. Problems in packages can only be considered fixed once a package that includes the bug fix enters the Debian archive. The way I read it is: "the new version has to introduce the fix for older ones". You shouldn't need to remove older version and installing the new one after or even editing any files yourself if the new version allegedly fixes the issue. Since the new version doesn't override the file in question it cannot possibly treated as a fix. Unless I'm missing something? [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644017 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640016 [2] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111007151708.GA28182@thor.local
