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

[Jonathan Nieder]

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