"Fix Released" state for changelog closed bugs

[Matthew East]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> The confusion is even higher if you consider a fix in a package that
> FTBFS on only some architectures, and the reporter happens to use an
> architecture affected by this new bug.
>
> In the end, launchpad would need to track architectures for each
> bug. Which is a distro specific concern that doesn't fit in a general
> purpose bugtracker like launchpad.

The suggestion in my original email was that Launchpad should mark a
bug as fixed when a package has been released on the architectures
that Ubuntu marks as "supported". I'm pretty sure that this is
technically possible (those Launchpad guys can do almost anything!)
and even though I have a limited understanding of Soyuz, I'm fairly
confident that it already does a lot of other "distro specific"
things.

But the reason I raised this on this list rather than on the LP list
is that I think there needs to be broad agreement that this is
actually a sensible thing to do.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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