Christoph Martin wrote: > We have a problem with the bug tracking system as long as we can't > really find out to which versions of a package a bug really > applies. We only mosttimes have the version of the packages where a > problem showed up. But we don't know if the bug was introduced with > this version or also applies to older ones. And in the case of > different distributions, if the bug was reported eg. for frozen we > don't know if it also exists in newer versions which are allready in > unstable. This is also a problem if a bug which is in one distribution > (like frozen or stable) gets fixed in another (unstable). Another > issue is, that some bugs only appear in special architectures (like > hurd, or powerpc). We really need a way to specify exactly to which > version a version applies. > > As long as we don't have this feature we can't really get the > "testing" distribution to work.
Well this is why bug reproducability is so important. I don't see how a magic bullet to fix this issue is at all possible though. -- see shy jo
