Dom wrote: > It is slightly confusing that reportbug seems to take into account > updates that haven't yet filtered through to the live systems.
It is one of the things I find annoying. This is default Debian BTS behavior and not really reportbug specifically. Debian has a Stable release but all bugs are triaged against Unstable. As soon as a package is uploaded to Unstable that closes a bug then that bug is closed regardless of whether it is still active in Stable. IMNHO it should be marked as resolved in Unstable but still open until the fix appears in the next Stable release. The BTS operates outside of the current Unstable, Testing, Stable release flow and really doesn't know about anything but Unstable. Some maintainers will keep bugs open and tag them with the release the bug appears in. (e.g. Tagged squeeze.) But that is all manual effort on the part of the maintainers. So although some do this it isn't the default behavior provided by the Debian BTS. Bob
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