The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > A closed bug is presumptively a fixed bug (because bugs which have been > fixed get closed).
I think this is only an assumption that would be made by someone who wasn't familiar with bug tracking systems? There are usually a whole bunch of different reasons to close a bug other than because it was fixed. The Debian BTS doesn't have close states, so we just don't track that information and this assumption is even more wrong for the Debian BTS than for most. We do not distinguish between closed wontfix, closed invalid, closed works-for-me, or closed fixed. So you really can't draw any strong conclusions from the mere fact the bug is closed. Some people add the wontfix or unreproducible tags when closing, but a lot of people don't, and it's not mandatory. I would only assume a bug was fixed if I saw it closed by a changelog entry. Anything other than that would require reading the bug log to understand what happened. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
