[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#837268: bzr: FTBFS: Tests failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 11/09/16 at 22:28 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:53:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 11/09/16 at 12:33 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > > Tags: stretch sid
> > > 
> > > This bug should not happen in stretch (yet) because diffutils 3.5
> > > has not entered stretch (yet), are you sure it's correct to tag
> > > it stretch in those cases?
> > 
> > What 'stretch sid' really means is "this doesn't affect stable". There's
> > no better way to express that.
> 
> Ah, ok.
> 
> > Even if the bug is tagged "stretch sid", normal BTS version-tracking is
> > still applied, so if the affected version isn't in stretch, it won't
> > be seen as affecting stretch.
> 
> That's precisely the little problem I wanted to point out:
> 
> The "affected" version (bzr 2.7.0+bzr6619-1) was both in stretch and sid,
> but the bug could not be reproduced in stretch because diffutils 3.5
> (the package triggering this bug) was not in stretch yet.
> 
> How would I ask the BTS if this was a bug in stretch?
> 
> Assuming for a while that diffutils 3.5 did not enter testing yet,
> would the BTS give the correct answer?

This is a case where there's no easy way to track affected releases. But
in doubt, it's better to err on the side of considering a release
affected.

Lucas