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Re: Versioning the closing of bug reports

On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote:

> I've made this proposal in the "Debian Sercie Team" thread, before,
> but it seems to have gotten lost :-)
> 
> When a maintainer fixes a bug and releases a new version to 'unstable'
> (or 'frozen'), the old, buggy version usually hangs around for quite some
> time until the release is moved to 'stable'.  The bug report is then
> moved to the fixed section, and deleted after 28 days, although it
> may still apply to the current 'stable' release at that time.
> 
> This is suboptimal, because
> 
> - the same bugreports may be submitted multiple times
> 
> - users aren't informed that this bug is known, and that they can
>   fix it by upgrading to the newest version

Another thing that would really help, IMO, is for the web interface to
the bug tracking system to be able to search by package name. The huge
list of all outstanding bugs is TOO BIG to be useful.

Then, when a user submits a bug report for package "foo", the response
message could also include a message like:

    Thank you for your bug report.  It has been registered as Bug# 9122.
    Remember to include the text 'Bug#9122' in the subject line of any
    additional messages you may send about this bug.

    You can read about reported bugs and interim solutions (if any) at
        http://www.debian.org/Bugs/package.cgi?foo

    here is a list of bugs reported against package "foo":

    Bug#    Subject               #replies   Status  Fixed   Submitted by
    8383    foo doesn't bar       6          Closed  970528  fred@nowhere.com
    9122    foo crashes on bad... 0 (new)    Open      N/A   bill@somewhere.com



    BTW, please use the bug system to search for an existing bug BEFORE
    you submit a new bug report. If your bug has already been submitted,
    don't create a new bug report just add your information to the existing
    report.


This will do achieve things:

1. it will allow users to see if there is a solution to their bug already
posted to the bug system

2. it will encourage users to search the bug system before they submit
reports.

Craig

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