On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 16:36:33 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:27:51PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 16:19:43 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > > > > care to explain ? > > > > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags > > > > adding the squeeze tag means the bug doesn't affect any other suite. > > Well, it's fixed in unstable already, that's why we need to go via > test-proposed-updates. > > Maybe it affects lenny, but massxpert isn't in lenny, possibly its > predecessor polyxmass is affected though (but I can't believe the bug is > that old, as it seems to be quite intrusive).
It's fixed in unstable because unstable has a version which is marked as fixed, not because it's unstable. Version tracking can handle that. The tag is necessary in the few cases where whether a bug affects a release depends on external factors, not a fix in the package. Cheers, Julien
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