Re: question: bugfixes in experimental?

2005-07-30 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi, On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 08:11 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Shouldn't it be some kind of policy to mark a bug as fixed, > only if the fix is available on the same level as the previous > broken package? There's a semi-policy IMHO, you can tag[1] the bugs instead of closing them, so there's a fi

Re: question: bugfixes in experimental?

2005-07-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I've got a problem with marking broken packages as fixed. Fixed generally means that the bug has been fixed in an NMU, IE, by someone not the maintainer; fixed-in-experimental is the tag that usually means that the bug in question has actually been fixed

question: bugfixes in experimental?

2005-07-30 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I've got a problem with marking broken packages as fixed. If there is (lets say) a grave functionality bug for package "M" in unstable or testing, then a bugfix in experimental doesn't help me. (I made very bad experiences with experimental, e.g. broken version numbers, currupted apt sy