On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 05:48:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > In various discussions prior to the reintroduction of bug archiving, the
> > release team expressed the view that bugs of release-critical severity
> > should not be archived until they have explicitly fixed in stable (according
> > to version-tracking), or have been explicitly marked as not applying to
> > stable (with suite tags).

> There's currently no way to indicate that a bug explicitely doesn't
> apply to stable.

Yes, there is: tags + lenny sid, or tags + lenny, or tags + oldstable
experimental, or...

> What should be done is the opposite; RC bugs which should not be
> archived should be tagged etch, which will cause them not to be
> archived.

This gives the wrong default behavior, and relies on someone recognizing the
bug and tagging it within a month of the closure for unstable.

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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