Bug#848285: closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> (Re: Bug#852042: nmu: jackd2_1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting James Cowgill (2017-01-23 11:59:10)
> Control: notfixed -1 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4+b1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 22/01/17 16:55, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Control: fixed -1 jackd2/1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4+b1
> > 
> > On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:27:03 +0000 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > 
> >> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> >> which was filed against the jackd2 package:
> >>
> >> #848285: jackd2: spits verbose output and exits immediately when the client stops sending audio
> >>
> >> It has been closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>.
> > 
> > Many thanks to all people involved in fixing the bug in GCC and in
> > fixing the resulting issue in Jackd!
> > 
> > I am looking forward to seeing the binNMU migrate to Debian testing.
> > 
> > In the meanwhile, apt-listbugs users risk seeing the package unpinned
> > and upgraded to the buggy version currently in testing, just because
> > this bug report has been closed with XXXX-done without version info.
> > I know that 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4+b1 is not a source
> > version, but I guess that adding it as a fixed version should not harm
> > the BTS version tracking and would probably make apt-listbugs understand
> > that the bug was *not* closed as invalid, just fixed in a binNMU...
> > I am adding such a fixed version, I hope nobody will get angry because
> > of this.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think this is going to work. Now that there is a
> "fixed" version, the BTS will only regard this bug as fixed in unstable
> if it sees a source changelog containing that version. Since this will
> never happen (it's a binNMU) the BTS will never regard this bug as fixed.
> 
> Given that binNMUs have no testing migration delay, hopefully this won't
> affect people for too long.

I think the correct approach is to reassign the bug to gcc and mark it 
as affecting jackd - i.e. not try track which jackd package is fixed: 
Purpose of binNMUs is to operate independent of the package.


 - Jonas

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