Possible stock response for >1 issue in one BZ

[Horst H. von Brand]

Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2009 11:30:21 am Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Right, KDE bugs should usually be reported to bugs.kde.org. They should get
> > fixed upstream. Still, filing at bugzilla.redhat.com too can't hurt, worst
> > case we'll just close it as UPSTREAM, but in some cases we'll backport
> > fixes or even try to fix it ourselves if the problem is important enough
> > and easy enough to fix.

> What if someone opened the bug in Fedora's bz because they wanted to know
> when the fix actually landed in Fedora? I was about to write a new topic
> on Fedora devel asking if we should do away with closing bugs UPSTREAM
> because it does not allow one to find out when something was finally
> fixed in Fedora vs upstream. This happened to me 2 weeks ago. I now have
> a bug closed and no way of knowing if and when its actually fixed in a
> stable release.

There is no guarantee that each and every bug filed will be closed by the
packager. I've had to close more than one bug I opened as it got fixed in
the course of updating.
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