[Pkg-octave-devel] Processed: Re: FTBFS: fatal error: curl/types.h: No such file or directory

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> [2012-07-15 16:08]:

> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> > Fair enough, as regards squeeze.  But why one would add tags "wheezy",
> > "sid" and "experimental" to the bug report when the corresponding package
> > does not exist in those distributions?
> 
> Because the BTS does not have a "notsqueeze" tag.  Those tags mean
> that the bug is _not_ valid unless you are using the wheezy, sid, or
> experimental suite.

I may be wrong, but your description above does not seem to correspond to
what appears in section "Tags for bug reports" [1] of the BTS
documentation.  "wheezy", "sid", and "experimental" are release-oriented
tags.  Quoting the documentation:

    "The release tags indicate that the bug in question should not be
    archived until it is fixed in the set of releases specified. The
    release tags also indicate that a bug should only be considered buggy
    in the set of releases specified. In other words, the bug is absent
    in any release whose corresponding release tag is not set if any
    release tags are set; [...]"


> Do you know some other way to communicate this to the bts?

Well, according to the documentation, in order to tell the BTS that a bug
is absent in squeeze, just remove the "squeeze" tag and you are done.
There is no need to set tags for every other releases.

At any rate, why are we bothering with a bug report that is already
closed?

Rafael

[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags