Re: Potential BTS improvements

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:09:09PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Note that this requires (besides the technical infrastructure) 
> > additional work by the maintainers:
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > Segfault reported against the version in unstable.
> > Bug fixed in unstable.
> > Is the ancient version of this package in testing affected?
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not saying that version tracking is useless, but to be usefull it 
> > requires additional work by the maintainers.
> 
> The maintainer could instead wait for users to report whether it's
> present in the testing or stable versions.
> 
> This is a quality issue, and is at the maintainer's discretion.

It depends on what the version tracking should achieve.

If you e.g. want to automatically see how many bugs that are already 
fixed in unstable are still present in testing you have to force all 
maintainers to check whether the version in testing is affected when 
they upload a fix and update the bug accordingly.

> Raul

cu
Adrian

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