Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 28 May 2002 09:19:26 -0500, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > No, tagging the bug 'potato' only means that it's a bug that pertains > specifically to potato. There are NO RC bugs that are potato-specific, > because potato is already released. ;) And for security-related bug

Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:54:14PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > But a bug marked 'potato' but that won't be fixed because it's not security > critical - is that still a bug? I mean, it is an issue with the package, > but because it only affects potato (or, by extension, the stable > distributi

Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:12:38AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > setting it to Potato shows that it has either been fixed or obsoleted in more > recent versions. Though the more common thing is just to close the bug unless it's frequently reported. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell int

Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > And what about when, for instance, potato is replaced as the stable distro > > by Woody? Should the bug be closed then because it's no longer relevant? > > Perhaps it's closed automatically because it's tagged 'Potato', I don't > > know. > >

Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > And what about when, for instance, potato is replaced as the stable distro > by Woody? Should the bug be closed then because it's no longer relevant? > Perhaps it's closed automatically because it's tagged 'Potato', I don't > know. > > Anyway, just trying to think my way through a few issu

When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
When a bug applies to an old version of a package (say, a version only in Potato) when should that bug be closed? If it's not security or life-threatening to the package, it will pretty much never get fixed in Potato, but it's still a bug. Perhaps it should be tagged wontfix and be done with it?