Re: in_avail() bug not fixed in 3.0.3

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:27:06AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2001, "David Rasmussen" <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > How come the bug was marked fixed, when it isn't fixed?
> 
> Alexandre Oliva writes:
> > It may well have only been fixed in mainline, in case the fix was too
> > involved for a minor release such as 3.0.3.  For example, it might
> > require breaking binary compatibility with 3.0.x, which is a major NO
> > for 3.0.3.
> 
> I'm sure that this is the case,

I'm almost certain that it was.


> but it does point out a problem: we
> don't have a way of querying GNATS to find which bugs fall in this
> category (fixed for 3.1 but not for 3.0.x).

This is YARTTOG[*].  I haven't seen any other bug-tracking system
which offers this specific behavior ("fixed in release X byt not in Y" yet.
Bugzilla has a field for "fix this bug by release X".  I don't think the
Debian BTS has any such field either.

Phil


[*] Yet Another Reason To Throw Out GNATS

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