| Kevin Mark 2005-05-31, 2:48 am |
| On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:21:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> writes:
>
>
> Agreed; I'd really like to see this as well.
>
> Another somewhat related matter that's bothered me for a while is that
> right now the Debian bug tracking system is not particularly useful for
> users of the stable version. The BTS is not likely to have much sign of
> most of their bugs, the maintainers have to carry around stable-tagged
> bugs (that then may show up as RC bugs in various summary reports) in
> order to document stable issues that are already fixed in unstable or
> testing, and the whole situation seems a bit confusing to what we would
> anticipate is the "average" Debian user (someone who uses stable).
>
> I'm not sure what the best fix is. Obviously, most bugs can't be fixed
> for stable -- even a lot of RC bugs are questionable to fix for stable
> once it's actually released. It would still be nice to give the user the
> known information about a bug they're running into, including any
> workarounds that had been found.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Hi Russ,
maybe use the wiki -- SargeKnowIssuesAndFixes page?
-Kev
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