[Debichem-devel] Bug#611142: Bug#611142: Processed: tagging 611142

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Feb  2, 2011 at 16:36:33 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:27:51PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb  2, 2011 at 16:19:43 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> > 
> > > care to explain ?
> > > 
> > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags
> > 
> > adding the squeeze tag means the bug doesn't affect any other suite.
> 
> Well, it's fixed in unstable already, that's why we need to go via
> test-proposed-updates.  
> 
> Maybe it affects lenny, but massxpert isn't in lenny, possibly its
> predecessor polyxmass is affected though (but I can't believe the bug is
> that old, as it seems to be quite intrusive).

It's fixed in unstable because unstable has a version which is marked as
fixed, not because it's unstable.  Version tracking can handle that.
The tag is necessary in the few cases where whether a bug affects a
release depends on external factors, not a fix in the package.

Cheers,
Julien
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