<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 September 2012 16:18, intrigeri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:intrigeri@debian.org" target="_blank">intrigeri@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
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Tim Retout wrote (08 Jul 2012 03:30:28 GMT) :<br>
<div class="im">> # libembperl-perl installs fine in squeeze<br>
> tags 666011 + wheezy sid<br>
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</div>I'd be very thankful to be quickly explained our (team) use of these<br>
release tags, or pointed at an existing explanation.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No problem. First, afaik none of this is specific to the Perl team. The search term to find out more about it is "Debian BTS version tracking" - there's a reasonably old (but still valid) wiki page tutorial:</div>
<div><br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/HowtoUseBTS#Version_tracking">http://wiki.debian.org/HowtoUseBTS#Version_tracking</a><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div><div>Also useful are the definitions of the release tags:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags">http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>The BTS shows which suites are affected by a bug using the coloured graph in the top-right - the tags can affect this graph, but just because a bug is tagged "wheezy" doesn't mean the BTS thinks it affects wheezy.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Given libembperl-perl is currently not in testing, should we keep the<br>
"wheezy" tag?<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I think in this instance those tags should not have been necessary, since 2.3.0-2 is not in squeeze. Hmm. That's odd, because I think in July I was looking at lists of bugs marked as affecting stable. Apologies for any confusion, here. :(</div>
<div><br></div><div>The tags don't hurt, though, and there's no need to hunt down and remove extra wheezy tags - the BTS knows that the bug doesn't really affect wheezy.</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Tim Retout <<a href="mailto:diocles@debian.org" target="_blank">diocles@debian.org</a>><br>