> "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As gcc changelog.Debian states, bugs filed against earlier versions > > of gcc (e.g. gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95) are closed when they are fixed in > > later version (e.g. gcc 3.3). > > > > Is that really correct? > > gcc-3.2 package is still in Debian and still contains those bugs. So > > IMHO bugs should be still opened against it, unless a fix is > > backported. > > There is absolutely no way to fix any bug in any package in the > version for which the bug has been reported.
Agreed. But gcc-3.3 is not the next version of 'gcc-3.2' Debian package. It is even built from different source package. In theory, bug can be fixed in next versions of gcc-3.2 package. > gcc 3.3 is an update for gcc 3.2, so it fixes bugs reported in gcc. But what about bugs reported on gcc-3.2?
