[Pkg-samba-maint] wheezy bugs

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 16:04 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> )Hi Andrew,
> 
> 2017-07-17 9:01 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
> > I would really like to close out bugs in Samba 3.6 in our bugtracker.
> > They are never going to be fixed and this is now and for a year already
> > as I understand it under the control of the Debian LTS team for
> > security updates.
> > 
> > Can we close them now?
> 
> I'm ok with this (I think that the closed state is relevant to sid),
> but others don't agree.

OK.  If they want to speak up I'm happy to take guidance, but with over
200 bugs, my feeling is that anything else is just going to make being
a new maintainer around here too over-whelming.  

Is there some formal guidance somewhere?

I really don't like the false hope Debian bugs give, and actually wish
we had a way to auto-restrict them to issues in sid/testing and issues
in the packaging, because as somebody has to say anyway, anything else
must go though upstream by our team policy, and almost certainly won't
be backported anyway.

The (silly, IMNSHO) bar we/Debian have on stable updates makes this
particularly pointless.

> > Or if not, can someone tag them in a way that I can work on the
> > actually open bugs?
> 
> You can see bugs affecting sid via:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;repeatmerged=on;src=samba
> 
> But I'm not sure that all bugs are properly versioned.

Almost none of them are, from what I can see. 

> See the found/notfound and fixed/notfixed bts meta
> (https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#found)

OK.

Andrew Bartlett
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