"Fix Released" state for changelog closed bugs

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 14:55:19 BST 2009


On Thursday 02 April 2009 7:30:47 am Matthew East wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen a little bit of confusion in the bug tracker about the
> status of bugs which are marked as "Fix Released" after a package
> upload has specified the bug number in a changelog.
> 
> Such bugs are marked as "released" immediately upon the source package
> upload being completed, but before the package has been built or
> published, even though a fix for the bug is not available to users.
> The gap can take hours, and in the case where a package does not build
> correctly, days.

I was just asking this last night during dholbach's package training session.  
If the changelog closes the bug, but the build fails, then it really doesn't 
seem to me that it should be closed.  Is there a way it could be linked to the 
"accept" process?

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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