Edgy (with current apt updates) -- Alacarte won't start

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le mardi 19 septembre 2006 à 13:13 -0600, Andrew Jorgensen a écrit :
> I'd like to interject here that I think one of the reasons people
> report bugs to this mailing list is that there isn't a way (correct me
> if I'm wrong) to specify in the meta-data on malone if your bug is on
> the stable release or development.

The mailing list doesn't have a specif way to specify what version of
the distribution neither. People write that information to the title or
the description of their mail, they can do the same when sending a bug,
why do you think the list is a better place for them?

> Also, as I think is probably the case here, sometimes there's no point
> filing a bug on development because it may be something that will be
> fixed in a few minutes and your bug report only serves to distract the
> bug squad and waste people's time.

Pointing issues make easier for upstream and maintainers to figure what
issues the users are facing and what is to fix. The unstable version is
where most of the bugs are fixed so it makes sense file bugs for it.

> In summary:  Malone needs to ask the reporter which release the bug
> was found in.  This has been a known problem for a long time and
> really needs to be addressed if you want to be able to manage your bug
> database.

While I agree than having a version setting would be nice, nothing
prevent you to mention the versions of the distribution and package you
are using to the bug description. Bugs are marked as fixed when they are
fixed to the current unstable distribution, if a bug need to be fixed to
a stable distribution a backport task can be opened.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher