tags 539538 - squeeze sid experimental quit Hi,
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > (still learning about all the dusty corners > of Debian). Bear in mind that I am new to this myself. > The bug does, in fact, exist in the version of mksh shipped with > lenny (but not the one in lenny-backports) but a stable update was > seen as too much effort, considering one has to manually (or with > debconf) set mksh as /bin/sh for it to trigger I see. I read too quickly before and didn’t realize that packages in lenny were relying on this behavior (in what was a rare setup, certainly). > – and those people > could (or, better expressed as, DEFINITIVELY WANT to) install the > bpo version anyway. > > If you think an spu should be done, I’ll backport the fix. Seems borderline; it’s your call. Since lenny still has another year or so to live, I think it might be worth it to help people at large sites that never upgrade anything that is not in a stable release, so they do not need to add workarounds in their scripts. But saying it this way, it does not sound so critical. > I’d > also be grateful for an explanation of what this tagging (of a > fixed bug) achieves A few things: - it changes the lists at http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ - if you tag a bug as applicable to oldstable, it will not be automatically archived until it is fixed in oldstable - it changes the lists at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=pkg&dist=dist Really there is no reason to care except that some people look at the http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/stable.html list (perhaps using a front-end like rc-alert or http://bts.turmzimmer.net/) and want it to have less noise. If a bug is not tagged with any release, the list of releases is inferred from the versions marked fixed. Regards, Jonathan [1] or rather, debbugs; the data is used by other similar tools, like http://bts.turmzimmer.net/, too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
