[Amavisd-new-debian-devel] Closing but reports #530745 and #599514

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, Harald Jenny wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:42:28PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Oldstable is less of a problem (so I'm not
> > going to complain about it), but can still mislead some users into not
> > being able to find a problem in their oldstable installs.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530745
> Here it's obvious that the bug was closed before stable
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599514
> Here the info about the fix is in the bug report itself (and verified by
> looking at the mailing list archives).
> 
> But if you think it's better to keep the bug reports open until support for
> Lenny is being dropped that is ok for me too, I'm just an uploader who wants to
> act policy compliant.

Well, if we always version the closing of a bug, the BTS will take care of
the book-keeping itself, and eventually archive any bugs that are closed on
all branches it knows about.

> Well to be honest I think that this problem was introduced before me getting
> involved:

Probably.  I was just providing an example, since you asked about it.

> I suspect that this message caused the wrong tree - I will correct it now, 
> should I reopen the bug too?

The BTS is rather smart nowadays, it will reopen when necessary.

Something else to keep in mind is that we have to be rather diligent on the
changelogs, and never lose changelog entries.  When doing separate
branches (e.g. stable-updates) which contains backports of other branches
(e.g. unstable), we must include the relevant changelog entries, otherwise
the BTS can get quite confused.   It depends entirely on the changelog to
build the version graph.

I don't think we ever had such problems in amavisd-new, but I once screwed
it up in intel-microcode, and suddenly some bugs started showing up as
active again due to a missing changelog entry.  A new upload with a fixed up
changelog took care of it.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh