Jayen Ashar, Just an FYI about the Debian BTS. There has been a long standing conflict with the use of it. Developers tend to only care about the Unstable track. The BTS is designed around the Unstable track. Bugs are closed when they are fixed in Unstable even if they still exist in Stable. As such the BTS is really designed for use by developers working with Unstable and the feature set of it works against users of Stable. This has been this way for a very long time and personally wish it were otherwise but so it is.
Additionally it has been two years since the previous Stable release took a snapshot from Unstable. In the intervening time the upstream Unstable ifupdown package has been reworked almost completely by Andrew. It bears little resemblance to the version in Stable anymore. It is unlikely that the bug you are reporting now in Stable would also be present in Unstable. Changes to Stable would only be allowed through if it were a security upgrade. That would not apply to this case. Therefore even if fixed it would not be suitable for a Stable update. And one more additional important information point. Unstable / Wheezy has been frozen for eight months in order to get Wheezy ready to be released as the next Stable! Things are really quite close. In perhaps just a few days or few weeks Wheezy will be released as the new Stable. It is just around the corner. At that time any bugs that are in Squeeze but not Wheezy can be closed and abandoned. That would be the case here. Your bug in Squeeze is very likely to be orphaned by the release of Wheezy in a very short time. This makes it very demotivating for anyone to work on it since if anyone procrastinates just a few weeks the problem disappears completely from the Debian system because the new Stable release won't have it and there is no support promised for Oldstable. And especially since the new Wheezy package has been substantially changed there isn't any return on the investment of working on the Squeeze version of the package. Andrew Shadura wrote: > Excuse me, but I don't support 0.6 any more. As package maintainer that is your prerogative but to people who using the Debian Stable this can be very disheartening. Debian as an organization supports Stable. Debian suggests that users use the Stable production release. Debian asks users to submit bugs found in packages. This bug is a good example of a package in Stable and a user submitting a bug against it. The submitter is doing all of the right things. I think it would have been much more friendly to simply tag the bug as "squeeze" (tag 701072 + squeeze). That would classify it properly for the BTS. It affects Squeeze but does not affect Wheezy. And perhaps someone might actually suggest a workaround for it during the lifetime of Stable Squeeze. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags When Wheezy releases simply close all of the bugs tagged "squeeze". That close action will notify the submitter that a fixed version is then available in Stable. This type of handling is much more friendly to the users of Debian and is fully supported by the current BTS. Bob
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