Bugzilla usage

[Michael A. Peters]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:04 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> On 07/15/2005 01:50 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > So this is more of a procedural question, but I thought I'd ask.  I've
> > got a bug that has been found and fixed in the latest release of a
> > package.  The bugzilla entry was opened against devel, but it's also
> > present in FE-3 and FE-4 since the same package is used across all of
> > them.
> > 
> > So now that the bug is fixed, I intend to mark it CURRENTRELEASE.  But
> > if someone runs a bugzilla query for this bug, there is no indication at
> > first glance that it's also been fixed for FE-3 and FE-4.  So should I:
> > 
> > a) clone the bug for FE-3 and FE-4 marking both of them as
> > CURRENTRELEASE as well
> > 
> > b) just comment in the original bug that it has been fixed in all
> > versions of FE
> > 
> > c) not worry so much about it and get a life
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> c). If you also fix it for FE3 and FE4.
> 
> If someone with an older version encounters this bug on FE3/4, he will - 
> hopefully - first update his package and not first go to Bugzilla and 
> query for this bug. :-) And if he really does, you can mark the bug as a 
> duplicate of 'current' bug in Bugzilla and close it with CURRENTRELEASE.

related question - are we suppose to indicate the bug number in the
changelog?
I see that sometimes in core packages when a patch is applied, but I
don't think I've seen it when it is fixed via a upstream version.