severity 570064 normal
thanks

Raphael Hertzog escribió:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> BTW: The BTS allows a bug to be assigned to multiple packages. I think
>> a reassign to "dpkg-dev,diffutils" would have worked.
>
> It does, but it's not recommended any more because once you reassign the
> bug you loose any version-tracking (the list of affected versions and
> fixed versions). So we duplicate the bug immediately and one gets might
> get closed with "in the end, it's not a bug for us" and the other with
> a real fix.

Ok. Makes sense.

>> Anyway, I'm keeping this bug open, as that's the one we are supposed
>> to forward upstream ("diffutils breaks dpkg-dev").
>
> Well, keeping it open also means that diffutils won't migrate to testing
> even if it's fine since it has a work-around.

Agreed. Fixed that by downgrading severity.


Note: We don't know for sure that 2.9-2 is "fine for testing". There
might be other hidden bugs/features/incompatibilities that we don't
know yet :-) I would be really delighted if none is found, as the
previous stable release was made nearly eight years ago.



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