[Pkg-samba-maint] Is "Processed: Still in wheezy" really a good idea?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 05:33:37PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 05:09 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > Processing control commands:
> > 
> > > reopen -1
> 
> I realise is is correct etc, but I'm wondering what the value in this
> is.  The Samba Team has long abandoned 3.6, and we have no resources
> here to deal with anything but the security and trivial issues in
> unstable, sometimes also stable.  
Keeping the bug open bug marking which versions are affected gives
users the ability to see what the status of an issue is. It's a
central point for discussion for a specific issue.

> So when we re-open these, do we just give false hope?
No, a bug report is merely an indication we're aware of an existing
defect. I don't think this bug is too unreasonable to be fixed in
wheezy. Somebody interested could contribute a backport to wheezy,
though I agree it's unlikely.

BTW, this same argument could be used for many of the bugs filed in Samba's
Bugzilla.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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