Bug archived on Debian showing as fix released

[Kjell Braden]

Mackenzie Morgan schrieb:
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 16:16 +0530, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>   From what I understand the Debian BTS closes bug reports when it
>> fixes a bug. It also does closes the bug when due to inactivity it
>> doesn't get fixed.  Something similar to what  launchpad janitor tries
>> to do. Now this gives wrong impressions for both times it shows as the
>> fix being released (on launchpad) when it is not so.
>>
>> For e.g. look at this bug report on debian
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435888
>>
>> From the couple of last posts it seems it just didn't get worked out
>> and the bug-report got closed but if you look at the launchpad page of
>> the same bug it shows that the fix is released.
>>
>> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/283491
>>
>> Am I reading something wrong or what?
> 
> Yes, you're reading it wrong.  The current status in Ubuntu is
> "Confirmed".  When a bug is closed due to inactivity in Ubuntu, it is
> marked Invalid.
> 

I think you got shirish wrong. I think his issue is that the debian bug
was closed for being too old (so, similar to Launchpad's invalid
status). However, the launchpad bug watch shows up as "Fix Released",
while it actually isn't.

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