Petr Cech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:04:08AM +0100 , Cord Beermann wrote: >> When i look into the BTS, i see a lot of bugs, that are somehow fixed, >> but not closed, or bugs where no one has touched them for years. >> (not even 'wontfix' or 'moreinfo' -actions.) > >do you remember, how long are those tags supported? 1 month? come on
I don't think anything ever kept maintainers from mailing a bug and saying "I'm not going to fix this bug" or "I need more information", whether the tag was there or not. http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tancient-standards-version.html is a good source of the sort of packages Cord's describing (though of course there are actively maintained packages in there too); setting Standards-Version: 3.0.0 as a minimum [1] sometime soon would be a good way of pinging all those packages and making sure their maintainers are awake. [1] I.e. agreeing that release-critical bugs should be filed against packages listing an older policy version. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
