On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:39:10PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > But bugs get closed when they're fixed in sid. [...] > > > > Usually, but not always, so I disagree. If the BTS was only to track > > what happens in sid, it would be impossible to use it to track a > > package in stable which FTBFS in stable and has been removed from > > testing and sid. > > > That's not true, we do that all the time.
If we track FTBFS in stable all the time, but bugs may only get closed when they're fixed in sid, as you say, we would never be able to close those bugs in stable. That's highly inconsistent. Moreover, this is what the BTS says when a bug is closed: "This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with." It does *not* say "the problem has been fixed in sid". If we close bugs but the problem has not really been dealt with, we are acting inconsistently. Thanks.
