On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:06:18PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > If such an easy and clearly RC bug as #237071 which is already fixed in > > unstable isn't adressed in testing until today, something is definitely > > going wrong. And if it was Jeroen's job as you said, he isn't doing it > > properly. > > > It will be worse between "28 August 2004" and "16 September 2004" > > when many hundred packages with a more recent version than in unstable > > whether sarge have to be evaluated and fixed during only three weeks. > > > This extra work is a price you have to pay for freezing testing, but if > > it isn't done properly and very fast, it might result in serious delays > > of the release. > > What would really be needed would be proper version tracking in BTS, > so that bugs get closed by a specific version, and we could search > all bugs affecting specific versions of packages. >... You will never find all issues in the BTS.
E.g. the BTS doesn't tell you that the unstable package of SpamAssassin contains a fix for a potential DoS attack. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed