Re: closing bugs against stable versions when a package is RMd from sid

2016-05-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Dear gregor (and others off-list), On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:17:36PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > The BTS is version-aware and knows/displays that the bug still > affects the version in stable. I am aware that the BTS is version-aware, but where I have got confused is I was assuming that mail

Re: closing bugs against stable versions when a package is RMd from sid

2016-04-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:15:13 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I think perhaps closing all open bugs when a sid package is removed is the > wrong thing to do. I'm not sure what could be done instead, though. > Thoughts? The BTS is version-aware and knows/displays that the bug still affects the ver

closing bugs against stable versions when a package is RMd from sid

2016-04-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
OpenJDK 7 just got removed from the archive (#820703) and as is normal for such situations all its open bugs got closed. I happened to notice because I reported one of them (#780665). However, I reported the bug against the version in Jessie, which still exists, and is still the only version of it