On 07/01/2017 02:17 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 02:11:43PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use "fixed -1 0.0.9-1" rather than >> closing the bug completely? The bug is still present in the unstable >> package after all. > > When the BTS has enough information for doing version tracking > it is irrelevant whether the bug is open or closed. > > Similar to an upload to unstable closing a bug, where the BTS also > knows when the closed bug is still in testing.
That is all correct. But that only works if the package upload in experimental would have actually closed a bug which it didn't. So this mechanism doesn't work here. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
