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

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Tue Jul 17 05:51:18 UTC 2012


Ok, I guess we are misunderstanding each other.  Let us come back to the
original issue and, hopefully, we will find some agreement.

Bug#637787 was found in version 3.2.4-8 of octave3.2 (the version
currently in squeeze) and was fixed in version 3.2.4-11, which never
reached squeeze.  This means that the version in squeeze is still buggy,
isn't it?  In this case, Bug#637787 must be tagged "squeeze", exactly the
contrary of what you are trying to do.

Please, there is no need to start a heated debate on this issue, I am
just trying to understand what is going on.  I may be missing something
and I apologize in advance for that.

Cheers,

Rafael

* Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> [2012-07-16 14:50]:

> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> > 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; [...]"
> 
> I'm afraid you misunderstood me.  I'll repeat the relevant sentence
> above:
> 
> 	The release tags also indicate that a bug should only be
> 	considered buggy in the set of releases specified.
> 
> But this is getting really tedious.  If you really want your bug to
> show up in bugs.debian.org/release-critical again, feel free to remove
> the release tags.  If you think the BTS documentation is unclear, feel
> free to file a bug against the bugs.debian.org pseudopackage and
> X-Debbugs-Cc me.  If you want an explanation of how debbugs works in
> more detail, perhaps you can find someone else to do that on the
> debian-debbugs at lists.debian.org list.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The squeeze tag was never there.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> It is not closed in squeeze, and squeeze is still being maintained.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
> 
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Rafael



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