On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:30:34PM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > This implies that the upstream is alive enough to fix it. > > I feel it should mean that the bug has been reported to upstream, and > that state is documented in the bug. > > If we keep every upstream bug open instead of closed, we'd have probably > another 2500 open bugs (5312 RESO/UPSTREAM in the history of Gentoo, and > I'm ballparking that 50% aren't actually fixed yet upstream).
Bug may be a blocker. And marking it as RESOLVED/UPSTREAM you may unblock another bug (e.g. stabilization request) which should be still blocked because there is no fixed package in tree.
