On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
That's just your perception and I don't see any consensus on that. The bug is fixed and fixed only in the development branch and this is a fairly common thing to do for upstream projects as well as distributions. because the fix is too small or too intrusive. As long as the user is informed about the reason, the status is just fine.
I'm not sure its always fine. Nor am I sure that its ever a slap in the face. The truth is is probably in between. There is probably something to be said about tracking deficiencies accurately on a release by release basis from a non-maintainer point of view.
Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects and which of those release branches the fix is provided.
-jef" <Miracle Max/>It just so happens that your bug here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive</Miracle Max> "spaleta