On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > As gcc changelog.Debian states, bugs filed against earlier versions of gcc > (e.g. gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95) are closed when they are fixed in later version > (e.g. gcc 3.3). > > Is that really correct? > gcc-3.2 package is still in Debian and still contains those bugs. So IMHO > bugs should be still opened against it, unless a fix is backported.
These bugs won't be fixed in gcc-3.2. gcc-3.3 is a newer upstream version. Just because it's made as a separate package doesn't mean a newer upstream hasn't been uploaded(3.3). If we follow your advice, then all packages would need to have separate per-(major-)version instances, so that bugs on older versions could be fixed.