On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 14:30 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:28:55 +0100, "Adam D. Barratt" > <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: > > If your next maintainer upload includes the changelog stanza for the NMU > > in its changelog then the BTS will automatically know that your upload > > includes those fixes, without your mentioning them in your own stanza > > for your upload. > > Doesn't it just consider that any version after the "fixed" version contains > the fixes? Otherwise I thought you'd need to specify the appropriate -v > option.
You're talking about two different things. -v is needed to include information in the .changes file for the purposes of e.g. dak closing bugs in a previous version which was never uploaded to Debian; the BTS does not see that information and does not base its decisions on bug status on whether the version has increased. > There are still cases sometimes of NMU changes being ommitted from the > following maintainer upload, so "fixed in NMU" could still be a meaningful > state. Admittedly patches get dropped accidentally between maintainer uploads > sometimes too, so the distinction isn't all that important... Indeed. The important question is "which versions of the package does the changelog claim that bug X is closed in?", regardless of who performed those uploads. Regards, Adam
