Bug#244070: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#244070: octave2.1-emacsen: octave quits when working with popen

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 7 March 2005 at 16:59, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
| Working on Sarge (octave_2.1.64-1, emacs_21.3+1-8), the bug is still
| present. Maybe we could we until 2.1.65 is in Sarge ?

IMHO that is a bad idea.  

A bug gets reported when it is discovered. Once a new package gets uploaded,
the bug should be closed ... as the passage from unstable to testing is
independent of the bug (well, unless it is a RC bug), there is no gain in
tieing the two.

Moreover, if passage to testing is delayed, it is often simply to breakage of
the toolchain on some unrelated architecture.  You know you can always fetch
the package manually, or even semi-automatically with apt pinning.  "Not in
sarge" is a fallacy, in my book.

Dirk

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