Bug#1070695: server-control.html: ambiguous text bug bugs assigned to 2 packages
Don Armstrong <[email protected]> Tue, 7 May 2024 20:57:08 -0700
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On Tue, 07 May 2024, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > At https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control.en.html (coming from > html/server-control.html.in in debbugs): > > The bug tracking system uses this information, in conjunction with > fixed versions recorded when closing bugs, to display lists of bugs > open in various versions of each package. It considers a bug to be > open when it has no fixed version, or when it has been found more > recently than it has been fixed. > > But this text is ambiguous when a bug is assigned to 2 different > packages and is marked as fixed in only one of these packages. The reality is even more complex than this paragraph, because found/fixed/absent is dependent on the DAG of package versions, not the time of upload. I should crib some text from one of my blog posts a few years ago about this and add it to the documentation.