On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:31 -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Whatever excuses.php calls (update-excuses?) is confused about RC bug > 530568, reported against the experimental version of ICU. [...] > In fact, updating ICU does not introduce new RC bugs. I imagine that > there is either a problem in the excuses code or that I have done > something wrong with respect to telling the BTS which versions of the > package contain this bug.
It's the latter. > It seems to me that the logic should be that, > if a bug applies to version X, it should apply automatically to version > Y if Y > X, not if Y was uploaded more recently than X. But I'm only > guessing about the age anyway since I haven't looked at the code. The BTS's version tracking is based on upload history as laid out in the package's changelog, not version nor date comparisons. The changelog for icu 4.0.1-3 (unstable) included the entries for the 4.2-1 upload to experimental, so the BTS believes that 4.0.1-3 is derived from 4.2-1; thus, any bug that exists in 4.2-1 and is not marked as fixed in 4.0.1-3 still applies to the latter version. This can be seen from the version graph on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530568 The simplest solution in this case is to mark the bug as fixed in 4.0.1-3 as well and then as found in 4.2.1~rc1-1. It's not correct but will convince the BTS that 4.2.1 and 4.2.1~rc1-[12] contain the bug but 4.0.1-3 does not. (For reference, "notfound" does not indicate to the BTS that a particular package version does not contain a bug; it removes the version from the explicit list of versions known to be affected, but the rules mentioned above regarding changelog ordering still apply). Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
